Re: Failing to use gnulib bootstrap in libtool

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Jim, Gary,

>   * modules/gettext inserts this line in Makefile.am (sometimes aka gnulib.mk)
> 
>         AM_CPPFLAGS += -I$(top_builddir)/intl
> 
>     and the above code comments that out.
>     That commenting-out is required for any project that does not
>     provide an intl/ directory.  Otherwise, gcc fails with this:
> 
>         cc1: error: ../intl: No such file or directory

You must be using the gcc options -Wmissing-include-dirs -Werror, I guess?
You can get away the error by not specifying -Wmissing-include-dirs. Or
by adding a gl/modules/gettext.diff override that comments out this statement.
Or, since "gettextize --intl" is deprecated now, the mentioned part of
modules/gettext could be removed in gnulib.

>   * The other part of that sed transformation (involving bt_regex)
>     is required in order to make changes like this:
> 
>         -         < $(top_srcdir)/build-aux/unused-parameter.h \
>         +         < $(top_srcdir)/._bootmp/build-aux/unused-parameter.h \

The question is: What is the ._bootmp temporary directory used for?
gnulib-tool supports symlinks already for some time now. What other
features require this temporary directory?

Bruno