Without autopoint, I was getting a different error about the gettext
m4 files being missing. But I didn't try it from a completely fresh
checkout; it's possible that that makes a difference. I will try that.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2026 at 12:51 PM Friedrich Beckmann
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>
>

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