I'm reporting a bug that was already noticed on the Automake mailing list a few years ago [1]. See that message for detailed output.
According to the gettext manual [2], AM_PO_SUBDIRS should do all the necessary work that AM_GNU_GETTEXT would do, minus checking for the ability to use gettext from C. This makes it ideal for programs using gettext in interpreted languages. The presence of AM_PO_SUBDIRS should cause autoreconf to call autopoint, but it does not. You can reproduce this by creating a project with the following configure.ac and Makefile.am: configure.ac: AC_INIT([Test], [0]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign]) AM_PO_SUBDIRS AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile po/Makefile.in]) AC_OUTPUT Makefile.am: SUBDIRS = po Regards, Philip Chimento [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2009-02/msg00021.html [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/AM_005fPO_005fSUBDIRS.html
