I tried this on opensuse 15.2 which has the unpatched 0.19.8.1 version. Which version do you use?
> Am 06.09.2020 um 08:21 schrieb John Darrington <[email protected]>: > > On Sat, Sep 05, 2020 at 05:32:46PM -0400, Friedrich Beckmann wrote: > commit 31d82a2be4506259512ee4ed075eadb76750139f > Author: Friedrich Beckmann <[email protected]> > Date: Sat Sep 5 17:24:17 2020 +0200 > > added appstream as a build requirement > > appstream provides the metainfo.its file which is required for > xgettext to extract the translation strings of the > src/ui/gui/org.fsf.pspp.metainfo.xml.in file > > The metainfo.its file is located in /usr/share/gettext/its on > debian and on opensuse. It is provided by the packages > > debian: appstream > opensuse: AppStream-devel > > The test in configure.ac is ineffective at detecting metainfo.its, if the > installed > xgettext is the unpatched version of 0.19.8.1 - it always reports that > appstream 0.12 is > not installed. > > Thus the purpose is defeated.
