Re: guile-1.8.1 tarball missing config.rpath

[Neil Jerram]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello bug-guile readers,
>
> The tarball at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.1.tar.gz
> has a configure script that uses the script config.rpath.  But
> this script is not shipped with the tarball.  This can cause
> "interesting" and weird bugs, if I remember correctly, on some
> systems at least.  It shows up as a warning during configure.
>
> A likely cause for the omission is that gettextize is needed to
> install this for you.  Also I think when you update the package
> to use Automake 1.10, a gettext-induced check for the presence
> of the config.rpath file will be enabled (so this doesn't happen
> again).

Forgive my slowness (both in responding and in understanding), but I'm
not sure I'm clear about what possible fixes you're suggesting.  The
two possibilities that I deduce from the above are:

1. Add config.rpath to Guile CVS and EXTRA_DIST in the top level
   Makefile, so that it's always, unconditionally present.

2. Make sure that whoever prepares the release has Automake 1.10; then
   automake --add-missing will install config.rpath as a side effect
   of the AM_GNU_GETTEXT declaration in configure.in.

Is that right?  Are there any other possibilities?

Regards,
     Neil