You can’t build on your system without autopoint?
> Am 04.03.2026 um 21:22 schrieb Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>:
>
> Seriously, I don't understand at all how GNU software is supposed to
> bootstrap these days. I think that there is a bootstrap script
> distributed as part of gnulib now for projects to use. Maybe we should
> use it in PSPP. It might avoid the portability problems we're seeing
> for Smake.
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2026 at 12:09 PM Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Does this fix the problem for you?
>>
>> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
>> index beb622dab6..2572ac00fe 100644
>> --- a/configure.ac
>> +++ b/configure.ac
>> @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DGCC_LINT"
>> dnl Disable automatic po/ support, because PSPP provides its own po/ support.
>> AC_PROVIDE([AM_PO_SUBDIRS])
>> AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-ngettext])
>> +AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.25.1])
>>
>> LIBS="$LIBINTL $LIBS"
>> AC_CHECK_PROGS([MSGFMT], [msgfmt])
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2026 at 11:39 AM Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't know. Try inserting a line with the version you're using.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2026 at 11:35 AM Friedrich Beckmann
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Any idea on debian 13 trixie when I run „make -f Smake"
>>>>
>>>> make[1]: Verzeichnis „/home/caeuser/pspp/pspp“ wird betreten
>>>> autopoint --force
>>>> autopoint: *** Missing version: please specify in configure.ac through a
>>>> line 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(x.yy.zz)' the gettext version the package is
>>>> using
>>>> autopoint: *** Stop.
>>>> make[1]: *** [Smake:355: aclocal.m4] Fehler 1
>>>> make[1]: Verzeichnis „/home/caeuser/pspp/pspp“ wird verlassen
>>>> make: *** [Smake:297: everything] Fehler 2
>>>> caeuser@debian:~/pspp/pspp$
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Am 04.03.2026 um 20:04 schrieb Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>:
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks like autopoint isn't installed. It comes from gettext. On
>>>>> Fedora, it's part of the gettext-devel package. Could you see if you
>>>>> can install it?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2026 at 10:19 AM Friedrich Beckmann
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Ben,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> the builds still fail on the builder in the automake stage:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://caeis.etech.fh-augsburg.de/buildbot/#/console
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fritz
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
