Re: bug with top_builddir in Makefile.in.in in gettext 0.11.2

[Martin Norbäck]

mån 2002-06-17 klockan 13.56 skrev Bruno Haible:
> Martin Norbäck wrote:
> > Makefile.in.in does not define top_builddir anymore, this means that the
> > following dependency fails:
> > 
> > Makefile: Makefile.in.in $(top_builddir)/config.status POTFILES.in
> > 
> > This was changed from the previous version. It seems these variables has
> > moved to a file called Makevars.template, not Makevars. Seems like you
> > have to copy the file by hand.
> 
> It was moved to a file called Makevars, and the package maintainer is
> expected to create this file.
> 
> > This is not good, because things like rpm runs gettextize automatically,
> 
> It shouldn't do so. gettextize is an interactive tool.
> 
> > and if the package is not already built with gettext 0.11.2 (very few
> > packages are), then it will fail.
> 
> The failure is expected. Upgrading from one gettext version to another
> requires maintainer attention, in particular reading the gettext
> documentation and the gettextize output.
> 
> > cp po/Makevars.template po/Makevars
> > 
> > to the build rules.
> 
> It is wrong, because it will kill settings that the maintainer has
> already made in po/Makevars.

Thanks for the clarification! By closer examination it seems that
gettextize is only invoked when using %GNUconfigure, not with
%configure.

The %configure macro still does to much, like invoke libtoolize, I will
take this up with the rpm people.

Regards,

        Martin

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