Re: autopoint and AM_ICONV, IT_PROG_INTLTOOL

"Zack Weinberg" <[email protected]> Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:14:25 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.general,gmane.comp.gnu.gettext.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jul 18, 2025, at 9:46 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Oops, small correction:
>>     (It does not make much sense to include them
>>     with versions of gettext < 0.26, because that would cause autoreconf
>>     to call 'autopoint' in situations where 'autopoint' will signal an error.)
>
> Correction: Any of the gettext releases
>   0.23.2
>   0.24.2
>   0.25.1
>   0.26
> is sufficient as prerequisite for these two Autoconf patches. All of these
> gettext releases contain the fixed 'autopoint'.

In order to merge these patches into upstream Autoconf, I'm going to need you to make them work with *any* released version of autopoint. (It's acceptable if "works" means "cleanly errors out on really old gettext", but " does the right thing regardless of how old the system gettext is" would be better.)

zw