gnulib-izing sharutils

[Bruce Korb]

Hi,

The autoconf stuff has atrophied to the point where I now have to do
Real Work to get it to build.  I guess the following message is
innocuous, but since I've got gettext version 0.17, couldn't this
message get suppressed?  Or, is it intended that everyone should
always put these things in the po/Makevars?  It isn't clear.
If that is what was intended, this message won't reach the hapless
builder of sharutils:

> Notice from module error:
>   If you are using GNU gettext version 0.16.1 or older, add the following 
> options
>   to XGETTEXT_OPTIONS in your po/Makevars:
>     --flag=error:3:c-format --flag=error_at_line:5:c-format

More important issues:

* better instructions on where to place gl_INIT are needed.
  I guessed at the top, but this:
> configure.ac:10: warning: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE was called before 
> AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
> m4/getopt.m4:50: gl_GETOPT_CHECK_HEADERS is expanded from...
> m4/getopt.m4:43: gl_GETOPT_IFELSE is expanded from...
> m4/getopt.m4:8: gl_FUNC_GETOPT_POSIX is expanded from...
> m4/getopt.m4:21: gl_FUNC_GETOPT_GNU is expanded from...
> m4/gnulib-comp.m4:33: gl_INIT is expanded from...
> configure.ac:10: the top level
  says otherwise in a quite confusing fashion.  If it ought to be
  something like this:

> gl_INIT
> AC_PROG_CC
> gl_EARLY

  then maybe say so explicitly?

==========

* I get a whole mess of messages like this.  Since none of this  appears in 
either
  configure.ac nor m4/sharutils.m4, I'm guessing some macro some where pulls it 
in.
  It is hard to trace though:
> $ ls ../../../lib/autoconf
> ls: cannot access ../../../lib/autoconf: No such file or directory

  So, to the messages:

configure.ac:21: warning: The macro `AC_TRY_RUN' is obsolete.
configure.ac:21: You should run autoupdate.
../../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2751: AC_TRY_RUN is expanded from...
../../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:620: AS_IF is expanded from...
../../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2018: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
../../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2039: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from...
m4/getopt.m4:50: gl_GETOPT_CHECK_HEADERS is expanded from...
m4/getopt.m4:43: gl_GETOPT_IFELSE is expanded from...
m4/getopt.m4:8: gl_FUNC_GETOPT_POSIX is expanded from...
m4/getopt.m4:21: gl_FUNC_GETOPT_GNU is expanded from...
m4/gnulib-comp.m4:33: gl_INIT is expanded from...
configure.ac:21: the top level
configure.ac:21: warning: The macro `AC_TRY_COMPILE' is obsolete.
configure.ac:21: You should run autoupdate.
../../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2601: AC_TRY_COMPILE is expanded from...
m4/inttypes-pri.m4:14: gt_INTTYPES_PRI is expanded from...
m4/inttypes.m4:10: gl_INTTYPES_H is expanded from...
m4/malloc.m4:27: gl_CHECK_MALLOC_POSIX is expanded from...
m4/malloc.m4:11: gl_FUNC_MALLOC_POSIX is expanded from...
m4/wchar_t.m4:11: gt_TYPE_WCHAR_T is expanded from...
m4/stddef_h.m4:8: gl_STDDEF_H is expanded from...
m4/wint_t.m4:11: gt_TYPE_WINT_T is expanded from...
m4/wchar.m4:12: gl_WCHAR_H is expanded from...

<<<expanded from just where?????>>>>>

configure.ac:23: warning: The macro `AC_GNU_SOURCE' is obsolete.
configure.ac:23: You should run autoupdate.
../../../lib/autoconf/specific.m4:332: AC_GNU_SOURCE is expanded from...
m4/gnulib-comp.m4:21: gl_EARLY is expanded from...
configure.ac:23: the top level
configure.ac:101: warning: The macro `AC_TRY_COMPILE' is obsolete.
configure.ac:101: You should run autoupdate.
m4/visibility.m4:23: gl_VISIBILITY is expanded from...
m4/intl.m4:25: AM_INTL_SUBDIR is expanded from...
m4/gettext.m4:57: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is expanded from...
configure.ac:101: the top level
m4/stdint_h.m4:12: gl_AC_HEADER_STDINT_H is expanded from...
m4/intl.m4:186: gt_INTL_SUBDIR_CORE is expanded from...
configure.ac:101: warning: The macro `AC_TRY_RUN' is obsolete.
configure.ac:101: You should run autoupdate.
m4/intdiv0.m4:9: gt_INTDIV0 is expanded from...
m4/inttypes_h.m4:12: gl_AC_HEADER_INTTYPES_H is expanded from...
m4/uintmax_t.m4:14: gl_AC_TYPE_UINTMAX_T is expanded from...
configure.ac:101: warning: The macro `AC_HELP_STRING' is obsolete.
configure.ac:101: You should run autoupdate.
../../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:230: AC_HELP_STRING is expanded from...
m4/lock.m4:29: gl_LOCK_EARLY_BODY is expanded from...
m4/lock.m4:22: gl_LOCK_EARLY is expanded from...
m4/lock.m4:253: gl_LOCK is expanded from...
configure.ac:101: warning: The macro `AC_TRY_LINK' is obsolete.
configure.ac:101: You should run autoupdate.
../../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2674: AC_TRY_LINK is expanded from...
m4/lock.m4:82: gl_LOCK_BODY is expanded from...
m4/intl.m4:270: gt_CHECK_DECL is expanded from...
m4/iconv.m4:20: AM_ICONV_LINK is expanded from...
m4/iconv.m4:154: AM_ICONV is expanded from...
m4/intmax.m4:11: gt_TYPE_INTMAX_T is expanded from...
m4/printf-posix.m4:11: gt_PRINTF_POSIX is expanded from...
m4/size_max.m4:9: gl_SIZE_MAX is expanded from...
m4/xsize.m4:7: gl_XSIZE is expanded from...
m4/intlmacosx.m4:18: gt_INTL_MACOSX is expanded from...
m4/codeset.m4:9: AM_LANGINFO_CODESET is expanded from...
m4/lcmessage.m4:21: gt_LC_MESSAGES is expanded from...