Re: Bug#162697: gettext: libintl blindly expects config.h (fwd)

[Bruno Haible]

Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> writes:

> Package: gettext
> Version: 0.11.5-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> When HAVE_CONFIG_H is defined, both the Makefile.in and source code in
> /usr/share/gettext/intl/ assume that AC_CONFIG_HEADER was given the
> string "config.h" as an argument. If instead it is "include/config.h"
> or "include/setup.h" then libintl won't build.

This is documented in the gettext manual, Node: config.h.in.

If your config header is called differently, you have the following
options:
  - Use multiple invocations of AC_CONFIG_HEADER. Newer autoconf
    versions support this.
  - Create a subdirectory containing a Makefile.am and a configure.in
    and a config.h.in purely for building libintl. Let your main
    Makefile recurse into this directory.
  - Link with libintl only when it is preinstalled. Use
        AM_GNU_GETTEXT(external)
    for this purpose; see also the gettext manual, Node: AM_GNU_GETTEXT.

Given so many options, I don't think it is worth to modify gettext for
this special case.

Bruno