Re: flex beta 2.5.22 released

[W. L. Estes]

On Sunday, 13 October 2002,21:48 +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:

> 
> | On Friday, 11 October 2002,10:28 +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> | > Now most packages no longer ship Gettext, which is big.  It also
> | > usually makes the maintenance easier.  Plus, it makes the package more
> | > robust:
> | > 
> | > ~/src/flex-2.5.22.2 % make pdf                                   nostromo 
> 10:27
> | > Making pdf in intl
> | > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/akim/src/flex-2.5.22.2/intl'
> | > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `pdf'.  Stop.
> | > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/akim/src/flex-2.5.22.2/intl'
> | > make: *** [pdf-recursive] Error 1
> | > 
> | > this is really a problem because intl/ is not handled by Automake :(
> | 
> | I've removed intl/ from the distribution, but now, po/ breaks--for the
> | same reason that intl/ was breaking before. It'd really be nice if
> | gettext supported automake or something. Do I need to bring this to
> | the attention of the gettext maintainers?
> 
> Nope, I don't think this is needed :)  But you can if you wish.  In
> any case, you probably did something wrong: it works fine, but I
> didn't say it was merely rm -f intl.  Have a look at Bison.

Whenbuilding bison-1.50:

./configure
make pdf

make fails in the po/ subdirectory because gettext does not support
the new automake targets.

...
Making pdf in po
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/bison-1.50/po'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `pdf'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/bison-1.50/po'
make: *** [pdf-recursive] Error 1

It would be nice if gettext provided automake support.

--Will