Re: [PATCH] Install new autoreconf files.

"Kevin J. McCarthy" <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:07:10 +0800
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On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 01:56:46PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen via Mutt-dev wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 06:21:22PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
>>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.
>>
>it's not wrong per se. it's more of a philosophy thing, whether you 
>want to do pure source control, or want to veer toward configuration 
>management. at the extreme end, you would be committing binaries for 
>every supported platform for each release. i'm a source control 
>purist, and would therefore delete (and gitignore) every file that is 
>somehow generated by/from something else in the repo.
>
>if there actually are any version dependencies between gettext and the 
>surrounding autoconf infra, one can code a constraint into 
>configure.ac.  that would be a problem for people building from git 
>with mismatched versions who somehow still want to build translations. 
>i wouldn't feel constrained by this hypothetical user group.

Thanks Oswald, and also Matthias in the other sub-thread (and as always, 
Steffen for your interesting posts!).

I think I'd like to try removing the files from the repos, because if I 
just update them again it will merely cause problems yet again in a few 
years.

Here's what I plan on doing:

1. Fix up the trixie docker image to include autopoint.  Just for 
reference, I store these in the "docker-images" repository on gitlab: 
https://gitlab.com/muttmua/docker-images

2. Add "AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(0.21)" to configure.ac

3. Remove and gitignore files that are reported as "Copy file" by 
`gettextize -f --dry-run --no-changelog`

4. Change prepare script to "autoreconf -isvf".  I like the idea of the 
symlinks, since it makes it more obvious they are external files.

Any comments?  Did I miss a step?

Matthias, I saw you also posted some fixes to the .gitlab-ci.yml that 
fixed the "current directory" assumptions.  Would you please send a 
patch with that change to this mailing list so Rene can easily review it 
too?

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Kevin J. McCarthy
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