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 > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>> >
