However, the "AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used, but not
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_(REQUIRE_)VERSION” diagnostic _did_ get promoted from a
warning to an error in 2.70. This changed because of an unrelated bug
fix: this particular diagnostic has always been issued via the
"Autom4te" library function error(), and calls to that function are
_supposed_ to make the calling process continue running but, when it
does eventually exit, report a failure to the parent process. The
code to report the failure had been left out, which we discovered when
working on something else.
autoreconf itself only wants AM_GNU_GETTEXT_(REQUIRE_)VERSION to be in
configure.ac; it detects AM_GNU_GETTEXT by tracing m4 macro
invocations, and can find it whereever it is.
However, once you have AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION in configure.ac,
then autoreconf thinks it _does_ need to run autopoint, and
*autopoint* doesn't know it can use traces to detect AM_GNU_GETTEXT,
and so you _do_ need to have both of them directly in configure.ac.
I think what this project actually wants, at least for right now, is
to not run autopoint. To make that possible again, I have demoted the
"AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used, but not
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION" message to a warning. The fix is on
development trunk as commit 66fdaea3cfb4e758212c1891913e9a59441d49af,
and the 2.70 branch as 35b1708c3961dce31e4ce43014e71d77aa4b5e31. It
will be included in the bug-fix release coming out some time this
week.
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