[bug-gnulib] Re: gettext sync from source?

[Simon Josefsson]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

> With the recent spate of license changes, we've lost many more
> once-synced files from gettext.  In all, about half the files once
> synced no longer are.
>
> So, I wonder if we would be better off checking against the gettext
> sources instead of the last gettext release.  I recall Bruno did not
> want to do this for various important source files, but it could be done
> just for these files with only doc changes.
>
> On the other hand, if the next gettext release is coming soon, then fine.

I'm not sure this is relevant, but the gnulib gettext files and the
files installed by autopoint (0.14.1, via Debian) does not work well
together, in the base64 project my autogen.sh reads:

autopoint --force
gnulib-tool --import
AUTOPOINT=true autoreconf --force --install

If I use the more simple:

gnulib-tool --import
autoreconf --force --install

I get the errors below.

address@hidden:~/src/base64$ autoreconf --force --install
Copying file ABOUT-NLS
Copying file m4/codeset.m4
Copying file m4/gettext.m4
Copying file m4/glibc21.m4
Copying file m4/iconv.m4
Copying file m4/intmax.m4
Copying file m4/inttypes_h.m4
Copying file m4/lib-ld.m4
Copying file m4/lib-link.m4
Copying file m4/lib-prefix.m4
Copying file m4/longdouble.m4
Copying file m4/longlong.m4
Copying file m4/signed.m4
Copying file m4/size_max.m4
Copying file m4/stdint_h.m4
Copying file m4/uintmax_t.m4
Copying file m4/ulonglong.m4
Copying file m4/wchar_t.m4
Copying file m4/wint_t.m4
Copying file m4/xsize.m4
Copying file mkinstalldirs
Copying file po/Makefile.in.in
Copying file po/Makevars.template
Copying file po/Rules-quot
Copying file po/boldquot.sed
Copying file po/address@hidden
Copying file po/address@hidden
Copying file po/insert-header.sin
Copying file po/quot.sed
Copying file po/remove-potcdate.sin
/usr/share/aclocal/xdelta.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of 
AM_PATH_XDELTA
  run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
  or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
/usr/share/aclocal/vorbis.m4:9: warning: underquoted definition of 
XIPH_PATH_VORBIS
/usr/share/aclocal/pth.m4:43: warning: underquoted definition of _AC_PTH_ERROR
/usr/share/aclocal/pth.m4:55: warning: underquoted definition of _AC_PTH_VERBOSE
/usr/share/aclocal/pth.m4:61: warning: underquoted definition of AC_CHECK_PTH
/usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4:5: warning: underquoted definition of 
PKG_CHECK_MODULES
/usr/share/aclocal/ogg.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of XIPH_PATH_OGG
/usr/share/aclocal/oaf.m4:4: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_OAF
/usr/share/aclocal/libgnutls.m4:12: warning: underquoted definition of 
AM_PATH_LIBGNUTLS
/usr/share/aclocal/libgnutls-extra.m4:12: warning: underquoted definition of 
AM_PATH_LIBGNUTLS_EXTRA
/usr/share/aclocal/libart.m4:11: warning: underquoted definition of 
AM_PATH_LIBART
/usr/share/aclocal/libIDL.m4:6: warning: underquoted definition of 
AM_PATH_LIBIDL
/usr/share/aclocal/gtk.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GTK
/usr/share/aclocal/gnucash.m4:9: warning: underquoted definition of 
AM_PATH_GNUCASH
/usr/share/aclocal/glib.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GLIB
/usr/share/aclocal/gconf-1.m4:4: warning: underquoted definition of 
AM_PATH_GCONF
/usr/share/aclocal/gconf-1.m4:71: warning: underquoted definition of 
AM_GCONF_SOURCE
/usr/share/aclocal/g-wrap.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of 
AC_GWRAP_CHECK_GUILE
/usr/share/aclocal/g-wrap.m4:23: warning: underquoted definition of 
AM_PATH_GWRAP
/usr/share/aclocal/avifile.m4:21: warning: underquoted definition of 
AM_PATH_AVIFILE
/usr/share/aclocal/ORBit.m4:4: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_ORBIT
configure.ac:38: warning: gl_AC_HEADER_INTTYPES_H is m4_require'd but is not 
m4_defun'd
configure.ac:38: gl_AC_HEADER_INTTYPES_H is required by...
m4/intmax_t.m4:31: gl_AC_TYPE_INTMAX_T is expanded from...
configure.ac:38: gl_AC_TYPE_INTMAX_T is required by...
m4/xstrtol.m4:18: gl_PREREQ_XSTRTOL_H is expanded from...
configure.ac:38: gl_PREREQ_XSTRTOL_H is required by...
m4/xstrtol.m4:27: gl_PREREQ_XSTRTOL is expanded from...
configure.ac:38: gl_PREREQ_XSTRTOL is required by...
m4/xstrtol.m4:11: gl_XSTRTOL is expanded from...
m4/gnulib.m4:34: gl_INIT is expanded from...
configure.ac:38: the top level
configure.ac:38: warning: gl_AC_HEADER_STDINT_H is m4_require'd but is not 
m4_defun'd
configure.ac:38: gl_AC_HEADER_STDINT_H is required by...
configure.ac:38: warning: gl_AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG is m4_require'd but is not 
m4_defun'd
configure.ac:38: gl_AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG is required by...
configure.ac:38: warning: gl_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T is m4_require'd but is not 
m4_defun'd
configure.ac:38: gl_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T is required by...
configure.ac:38: warning: gl_AC_HEADER_INTTYPES_H is m4_require'd but is not 
m4_defun'd
configure.ac:38: gl_AC_HEADER_INTTYPES_H is required by...
m4/intmax_t.m4:31: gl_AC_TYPE_INTMAX_T is expanded from...
configure.ac:38: gl_AC_TYPE_INTMAX_T is required by...
m4/xstrtol.m4:18: gl_PREREQ_XSTRTOL_H is expanded from...
configure.ac:38: gl_PREREQ_XSTRTOL_H is required by...
m4/xstrtol.m4:27: gl_PREREQ_XSTRTOL is expanded from...
configure.ac:38: gl_PREREQ_XSTRTOL is required by...
m4/xstrtol.m4:11: gl_XSTRTOL is expanded from...
m4/gnulib.m4:34: gl_INIT is expanded from...
configure.ac:38: the top level
configure.ac:38: warning: gl_AC_HEADER_STDINT_H is m4_require'd but is not 
m4_defun'd
configure.ac:38: gl_AC_HEADER_STDINT_H is required by...
configure.ac:38: warning: gl_AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG is m4_require'd but is not 
m4_defun'd
configure.ac:38: gl_AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG is required by...
configure.ac:38: warning: gl_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T is m4_require'd but is not 
m4_defun'd
configure.ac:38: gl_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T is required by...
configure.ac:38: warning: gl_AC_HEADER_INTTYPES_H is m4_require'd but is not 
m4_defun'd
configure.ac:38: gl_AC_HEADER_INTTYPES_H is required by...
m4/intmax_t.m4:31: gl_AC_TYPE_INTMAX_T is expanded from...
configure.ac:38: gl_AC_TYPE_INTMAX_T is required by...
m4/xstrtol.m4:18: gl_PREREQ_XSTRTOL_H is expanded from...
configure.ac:38: gl_PREREQ_XSTRTOL_H is required by...
m4/xstrtol.m4:27: gl_PREREQ_XSTRTOL is expanded from...
configure.ac:38: gl_PREREQ_XSTRTOL is required by...
m4/xstrtol.m4:11: gl_XSTRTOL is expanded from...
m4/gnulib.m4:34: gl_INIT is expanded from...
configure.ac:38: the top level
configure.ac:38: warning: gl_AC_HEADER_STDINT_H is m4_require'd but is not 
m4_defun'd
configure.ac:38: gl_AC_HEADER_STDINT_H is required by...
configure.ac:38: warning: gl_AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG is m4_require'd but is not 
m4_defun'd
configure.ac:38: gl_AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG is required by...
configure.ac:38: warning: gl_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T is m4_require'd but is not 
m4_defun'd
configure.ac:38: gl_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T is required by...
configure:7168: error: possibly undefined macro: gl_AC_HEADER_INTTYPES_H
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure:7169: error: possibly undefined macro: gl_AC_HEADER_STDINT_H
configure:7170: error: possibly undefined macro: gl_AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG
configure:7192: error: possibly undefined macro: gl_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
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