Re: Makefile.in.in fails when gettext not installed (patch)

[Bruno Haible]

Yann Dirson wrote:
> for some user fetching from
> CVS, for example, there may not be any .gmo files available.  And the
> current rules can just prevent "make" to reach the src/ dir because of
> the error thrown by this line.

That depends how many files you have committed to CVS. In general, the
more generated files you commit into CVS, the fewer tools the CVS user
needs to have. (Please read also the section "Integrating with CVS" of the
GNU gettext manual.) In particular, if you put the .pot file under CVS
control, the CVS user won't need to have the gettext tools installed.

> BTW, throwing stderr from these tests to /dev/null is quite annoying, since
> the reason for the test failure is not kept anywhere. It would be
> good to have it reach config.log, that would help diagnosing user
> problems

Agreed. It's too much of a black box test. - How do I print something into
the config.log? I don't find it mentioned in the autoconf manual.

Bruno