Building Make out of Git: Gettext requirements

2013-04-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Trying to build the current git head, I get this: $ autoreconf -i autopoint: *** The AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION declaration in your configure.ac file requires the infrastructure from gettext-0.18.1 but this version is older. Please upgrade to gettext-0.18.1 or newer.

Re: [PATCH 4/4] Windows: MSYS Autotools doc disabling hack

2013-04-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:24:42 +0100 From: Ray Donnelly mingw.andr...@gmail.com Cc: bug-make@gnu.org This is all, of course, with sources from git. If configure contains the line continuation ('\') in AC_CONFIG_FILES, then we end up with this lovely construct in configure:

Re: [PATCH 4/4] Windows: MSYS Autotools doc disabling hack

2013-04-20 Thread Ray Donnelly
I tried with various autoconf versions, including 2.65, and also with three different versions of m4.exe ( all from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Extension/m4/ ) with both dos and unix line-endings and each time ran into the same problem. Eli, would it be possible to describe

Re: Building Make out of Git: Gettext requirements

2013-04-20 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 13:50 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Do we really need to require 0.18.1 or can this restriction be lifted? I hacked configure.ac to require 0.17, and didn't see any problems afterwards. You can see this bug: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37307 I confess I didn't get a

Re: Example use of findstring in documentation can be problematic

2013-04-20 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 18:07 -0600, David Sankel wrote: In section 7.3 and 8.2 the function 'findstring' is recommended as a means to search a space separated list for a given value. This suggestion is problematic as findstring really searches for substrings. So, for example $(findstring

Re: Building Make out of Git: Gettext requirements

2013-04-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/20/2013 05:44 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 13:50 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Do we really need to require 0.18.1 or can this restriction be lifted? I hacked configure.ac to require 0.17, and didn't see any problems afterwards. You can see this bug:

Re: [PATCH 4/4] Windows: MSYS Autotools doc disabling hack

2013-04-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:52:03 +0100 From: Ray Donnelly mingw.andr...@gmail.com Cc: bug-make@gnu.org I tried with various autoconf versions, including 2.65, and also with three different versions of m4.exe ( all from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Extension/m4/ ) with

Re: Building Make out of Git: Gettext requirements

2013-04-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Paul Smith p...@mad-scientist.net Cc: bug-make@gnu.org Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:44:02 -0400 On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 13:50 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Do we really need to require 0.18.1 or can this restriction be lifted? I hacked configure.ac to require 0.17, and didn't see any

Re: Building Make out of Git: Gettext requirements

2013-04-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:56:45 +0200 From: Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com CC: Eli Zaretskii e...@gnu.org, bug-make@gnu.org On 04/20/2013 05:44 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 13:50 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Do we really need to require 0.18.1 or can this

Re: Building Make out of Git: Gettext requirements

2013-04-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 04/20/2013 07:00 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:56:45 +0200 From: Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com CC: Eli Zaretskii e...@gnu.org, bug-make@gnu.org On 04/20/2013 05:44 PM, Paul Smith wrote: On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 13:50 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Do we

Re: Building Make out of Git: Gettext requirements

2013-04-20 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 19:38 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: From: Paul Smith p...@mad-scientist.net Cc: bug-make@gnu.org Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:44:02 -0400 On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 13:50 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Do we really need to require 0.18.1 or can this restriction be lifted?

Re: Building Make out of Git: Gettext requirements

2013-04-20 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Paul Smith p...@mad-scientist.net Cc: bug-make@gnu.org Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:02:43 -0400 I believe this is only a problem building from git. If you build from a distribution tarball then you don't need to have any particular version of gettext installed. For developers who

[PATCH] Reflect the 'configure.in' - 'configure.ac' rename throughout

2013-04-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
In README, code comments, and auxiliary files. Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com --- ChangeLog | 9 + Makefile.DOS.template | 2 +- README.git| 4 ++-- build_w32.bat | 2 +- config.h-vms.template |