bug#33166: automake --add-missing does not install config.rpath when AM_ICONV is used

2018-12-07 Thread Bruno Haible
> I need iconv but not gettext. Then take the Gnulib module 'iconv'. [1][2] It contains iconv.m4, its macro dependencies, and config.rpath - that is, exactly what you need. Bruno [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/MODULES.html#module=iconv [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html

bug#33166: automake --add-missing does not install config.rpath when AM_ICONV is used

2018-10-27 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker
Am 27.10.2018 um 12:48 schrieb Stuart Caie: > I understand that there is a boundary between these two packages, and > this is not directly automake's problem, even though the main mechanism > for copying missing files is in automake. Not for this file it isn't, because as far as automake is conce

bug#33166: automake --add-missing does not install config.rpath when AM_ICONV is used

2018-10-27 Thread Stuart Caie
On 26/10/2018 20:54, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: “config.rpath” which is maintained in GNU Gettext is already copied inside the target source tree by the ‘autopoint’ program which is automatically run by ‘autoreconf --install’ when the Gettext macros are added to “configure.ac”. ‘autoreconf’ serves

bug#33166: automake --add-missing does not install config.rpath when AM_ICONV is used

2018-10-26 Thread Nick Bowler
On 10/26/18, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: > Am 26.10.2018 um 17:06 schrieb Stuart Caie: >> Technically, AM_ICONV is not distributed with automake, and neither is >> is config.rpath. However, automake recognises config.rpath as a special >> file to distribute nonetheless. > > That's not really autom

bug#33166: automake --add-missing does not install config.rpath when AM_ICONV is used

2018-10-26 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Hello Stuart, Stuart Caie writes: > the automake macro AM_ICONV requires the auxiliary program config.rpath, > however automake --add-missing will not install it. > > Technically, AM_ICONV is not distributed with automake, and neither is > is config.rpath. However, automake recognises config.rpa

bug#33166: automake --add-missing does not install config.rpath when AM_ICONV is used

2018-10-26 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker
Am 26.10.2018 um 17:06 schrieb Stuart Caie: > Hello, > > the automake macro AM_ICONV requires the auxiliary program config.rpath, > however automake --add-missing will not install it. That's because it's not automake's file. Automake has no way of knowing where to get that file from, nor a respo

bug#33166: automake --add-missing does not install config.rpath when AM_ICONV is used

2018-10-26 Thread Stuart Caie
Hello, the automake macro AM_ICONV requires the auxiliary program config.rpath, however automake --add-missing will not install it. Technically, AM_ICONV is not distributed with automake, and neither is is config.rpath. However, automake recognises config.rpath as a special file to distribute non