Re: gettext-0.11 trivial configure.in typo

[Bruno Haible]

Tim Mooney writes:
> While rebuilding the configure machinery with more recent tools,
> autoconf 2.52 pointed out:
> 
> configure.in:120: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_TRY_COMPILER
> 
> Looks like a typo to me

It is not a typo. AC_TRY_COMPILER and AC_TRY_COMPILE are quite
different macros.

You simply cannot use autoconf-2.52 to regenerate a configure file
that was created with autoconf-2.13. Sometimes it works, sometimes
(like in the case of gettext) it doesn't.

> As a heads up, it's also worthwhile to note that autoconf 2.52g and
> presumably later versions will now error out rebuilding configure if
> you modify LIBOBJS directly, which gettext does.  You're apparently
> supposed to use AC_LIBOBJS instead.

Thanks for the tip, but gettext will continue to use autoconf-2.13 for
at least a year.

Bruno