Hello Paul, sorry for the delay. On 04/25/2013 06:23 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Thanks, I applied the following instead; hope it works for you. > > From 57e5a7a1e7c5d53d2eadfb2b606301fbb0f70f45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:22:11 -0700 > Subject: [PATCH] maint: port to bleeding-edge Automake by assuming Gettext > 0.18.2 > > Reported by Stefano Lattarini in > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2013-04/msg00009.html>. > * configure.ac (AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION): Increase from 0.16 to 0.18.2. > README-alpha says that we do not make any efforts to accommodate > older versions of Gettext. > --- > configure.ac | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac > index 3303c53..4ddb694 100644 > --- a/configure.ac > +++ b/configure.ac > @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ AC_CHECK_TYPE(iconv_t,:, > > # Gettext. > AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-formatstring-macros]) > -AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.16]) > +AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.18.2]) > > # Initialize the test suite. > AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR(tests) > Alas, this doesn't work. The failure was due to the interaction between one small buglet in Gettext 0.18.2 and a little regression in bleeding-edge automake. I've now fixed the latter [1], and GNU tar bootstraps cleanly once again, with or without this patch of yours. So feel free to revert it if you want.
[1] <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=d90001> Thanks, and sorry for the confusion, Stefano
