Re: [XBoard-devel] Xboard GTK on Windows

[h.g. muller]

At 14:31 21-6-2011 +0200, Michel Van den Bergh wrote:
> *** error: gettext infrastructure mismatch: using a Makefile.in.in from 
> gettext version 0.18 but the autoconf macros are from gettext version 0.17

I had the same problem, and Tim had the soluton to run "gettextize -f" 
before all of the above.

This works, but unfortunately not without side effects. It alters many 
files that are in git,
so I cannot use "git commit -a" (which I like to use,lazy as I am...) to 
commit my changes anymore .
And what is worse, it prevents me from changing branch ("git checkout 
xxx"), because
"the working tree is dirty".

So what I do after the gettextize, is: do the build, and after it, do a 
"git reset --hard HEAD".
As long as you don't run autogen.sh again, you can then build.(This might 
be equivalent
to simply changing configure with an editor, though, for which I am not 
sure it gives you
properly working gettext. But usually I don't care if gettext works; I just 
want to be able
to compile to see if my functional changes work, and use git.) This is 
still not a perfect
solution, though; some older branches can only be built rerunning 
autogen.sh, and
then you get the gettext version problem back.

Doing a make update-po has the same disastrous consequences to the 
usability of git;
I didn't know any better solution than to just commit the dozen-or-so files 
that changed.
But this brings hgmaster out of sync with savannah master.