Re: [PATCH] Install new autoreconf files.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 10:33:31AM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen via Mutt-dev wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 12:44:21PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
>>The only workaround I could
>>find was running autoreconf with '-if' to force install.
>>
>this is a completely normal thing to require for a build from a git. 
>why are these .m4 files even in the repository?

Hi Oswald,

Historically they have been, for far longer than when I came on the 
project.  The prepare script seems not to have been changed for 19 
years.  I haven't seen this problem since I've been maintaining mutt, so 
I'm a bit confused.

When I updated to a vanilla gettext configuration with gettextize five 
years ago, I committed the changes, as I thought the manual suggested:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Distributed-Development.html

However, if it I did something wrong, then let's talk about what needs 
to be changed.

-- 
Kevin J. McCarthy
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