Re: Question on older version of gettext

[Dieter Jurzitza]

Dear listmembers,
dear Eric,
I tried your recommendation but doing this the apparently "harmless" warning 
turned to an error.
Following your advice I put the define into configure.in, what made the 
warnings vanish, however, if I do not forcibly enter the string

datarootdir = @datarootdir@

into intl/Makefile.in and po/Makefile.in.in something goes wrong with 
compilation. The locale - files do not end up where they ought to go, rather 
than /usr/share/locale things end up in /locale now. Obviously the 
datarootdir should be defined somehow and is required for compilation.

Is there a way to add some variable to configure.in that would define 
datarootdir so it is known to the gettext-structure?

So I think I have a chicken - egg issue - I cannot patch the files prior to 
running autoreconf because things get overwritten - but my system requires 
the path to be set so I have to patch the results of reautoconf afterwards.

Any further suggestions are highly appreciated,
thank you for your time,
take care




Dieter Jurzitza

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-----------------------------------------------------------Am Sonntag, 15. 
Februar 2009 18:12:50 schrieb Eric Blake:
> According to Dieter Jurzitza on 2/15/2009 8:42 AM:
> > Now, this package is using gettext 0.11.5 what causes 2 warnings to pop
> > up (they're harmless, but I'd like to know how to get rid of them):
> >
> > config.status: WARNING:  po/Makefile.in.in seems to ignore the
> > --datarootdir setting
> > config.status: WARNING:  intl/Makefile.in seems to ignore the
> > --datarootdir setting
> >
> > Just for curiousity reasons and for to learn something: is there any way
> > to get rid of this warning without upgrading to a more recent gettext
> > version?
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Changed-Directory
>-Variables AC_DEFUN([AC_DATAROOTDIR_CHECKED])