Re: gettext-0.10.37 is not compatible with gettext-0.10.35

[H . J . Lu]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:59:09PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> H. J. Lu writes:
> 
> > > > ./fileutils-4.0.36/po/Makefile.in.in
> > > > ./textutils-2.0.11/po/Makefile.in.in
> > > For these packages you also need a recent autoconf snapshot.
> > Why?
> 
> These two particular packages use m4 macros which only work with recent
> autoconf. This is not related to gettext.

You don't have to worry about them IF they are not related to gettext.
But you shouldn't have broken gettext as you have done in
gettext-0.10.37.

> 
> > Can you make gettext-0.10.37 compatible with gettext-0.10.35 so
> > that I can autoconf on RedHat 7.1?
> 
> I sent you a patch that you can apply to your /usr/share/aclocal/gettext.m4.
> Please use it; I won't make a new gettext release in the next three weeks:
> I wait for more bug reports.

It works better now. But it is still broken. You removed GENCAT from
gettext.m4. Now texinfo-4.0/po/Makefile.in has

GENCAT =

instead of

GENCAT = @GENCAT@

atfter

# aclocal
# autoconf
# automake

Could you please provide a patch to put back ALL the stuff you removed
from gettext.m4 in gettext-0.10.37? As I said, gettext-0.10.37 is
pretty much broken or useless.

Thanks.


H.J.