Re: config.status: error: cannot find input file: ` .in'

[Eric Blake]

On 07/01/2018 10:13 PM, John Calcote wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 1, 2018, 2:54 PM Sascha Manns <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > [ 22s] checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
> > [ 22s] configure: creating ./config.status [ 22s] config.status: error:
> > cannot find input file: ` .in'

Is that space literally part of the error message?  Or is email garbling 
the spacing?

> This error is coming from the AC_CONFIG_FILES line. You seem to be
> specifying both the input and output files for some of the entries but not
> for all of them. You may do this but your syntax is incorrect.
>
> Start by removing all of the lines in the macro argument that end in .in.

Well, most of them.  But po/Makefile.in is actually a typical 
AC_CONFIG_FILES target, as gettext ships a po/Makefile.in.in (yes, with 
the double suffix), and does it's own thing later on during make to 
convert po/Makefile.in into an actual Makefile without having to depend 
on automake (although typically you don't store either po/Makefile.in.in 
nor po/Makefile.in in version control, as they are generated files).

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