Re: [bug-gettext] autopoint and m4_ifndef

[Daiki Ueno]

Pavel Raiskup <address@hidden> writes:

> Is there a reason why autopoint/gettextize is run before aclocal?

One possible reason is that autopoint copies M4 files from a tarball
(e.g. /usr/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.*), rather than the standard
aclocal directory.  They need to be processed by aclocal later.

> (Other, quite long-term solution would be to hack aclocal to be able to
> give us its *hardly built* list of include files, or used macros, e.g. by
> some special option - ehm, but it may even more complicate the aclocal
> code)

Yeah, but I doubt that autopoint needs to trace macros defined outside
of configure.ac.  Currently it traces only the following macros, which
are usually invoked from configure.ac.

AM_GNU_GETTEXT
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR
AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS
AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR
AC_CONFIG_FILES

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno