On 05/03/2014 10:35 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 05/03/2014 01:39 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Coreutils' bootstrap script fails (in a freshly cloned directory) with >> gettext 0.18.3.1. >> >> This has been discussed few times on the mailing list: >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-11/msg00038.html >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2014-01/msg00058.html >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2014-04/msg00106.html >> >> And already resolved (with recommendation to upgrade to 0.18.3.2): >> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40083 >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gettext/+bug/1311895 >> >> But version 0.18.3.1 is still "out there" and hasn't been upgraded in >> several distributions. >> >> Would you be receptive to add the following minor work-around for >> "bootstrap" ? >> It creates the two needed files, which allows "autopoint" to continue, then >> "gnulib" immediately overrides them with the correct versions. >> >> Comments are welcomed, >> - gordon >> >> P.S. >> So far I have only tested it on Ubuntu 14.04 (with gettext 0.18.3.1) and >> Debian 7 (with gettext 0.18.1.1-9). > > While all the main distros are now updated > the workaround is simple enough to include. > I'll add a comment to remove in 2015 and > apply to gnulib and coreutils.
We wouldn't be wanting the cu-progs.m4 in other projects though, so we should probably conditionalize that to just $package = coreutils. It wouldn't be worth adding new hooks for this to generalize. thanks, Pádraig.
