Re: config.rpath conflict

[Bruno Haible]

Simon Josefsson wrote on 2009-08-31:
> > Until then, you have to overwrite autopoint'ed files with copies brought in
> > by gnulib-tool.
> 
> Is this still the recommended practice for using autopoint and
> gnulib-tool together?
>
> I ran into an issue where size_max.m4 imported by autopoint was older
> than the copy provided by gnulib.

Yes, exactly this can happen. Documented in
  
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/gettextize-and-autopoint.html>

> Overwriting the m4 files created by 
> autopoint with gnulib-tool causes autoconf, automake, ./configure etc to
> be re-run before 'make' works, which significantly slows down building
> my projects, so I'd like to find some other solution.

autopoint and gnulib-tool are both in the same category of tools: They
fetch missing files from elsewhere. autoconf, automake come later: They
generate files from given files. configure and make come afterwards.

In regular development, I would expect that you regularly modify some
configure.ac or Makefile.am, which don't require autopoint or gnulib-tool
to be run. Only seldom you decide to require more gnulib modules. No?

Bruno