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gnulib-tool and autoreconf


From: Colin Watson
Subject: gnulib-tool and autoreconf
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:35:26 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

I find the advice in gnulib's documentation "Caveat: gettextize and
autopoint users" rather difficult to follow in practice. I prefer to use
autoreconf rather than having to track which tools and options I'm
supposed to be using, but autoreconf invokes autopoint followed by the
other tools without letting me interpose a call to gnulib-tool. Of
course I could call autopoint and gnulib-tool myself and then call
autoreconf with AUTOPOINT=/bin/true, but that's clumsy at best.

Is it worth proposing something like the attached patch to the Autoconf
maintainers? Should it be controlled by a command-line option to
autoreconf? I prefer to run 'gnulib-tool --update' every time I
regenerate my autotools files, but I have a feeling some people follow
different practices.

I understand I'd need to send this to bug-autoconf, but wanted to run it
by this list first.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden

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