Re: autopoint: ... gettext-0.20 ... is too old

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 9:50 AM Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Jeffrey,
>
> > if ! ./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=../"$GNULIB_TEST_DIR"
> > --single-configure;
> > ...
> >   ...
> >   top/GNUmakefile
> >   top/README-release
> >   top/maint.mk
> > executing autopoint --force
> > autopoint: *** The AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION declaration in your configure.ac
> >                file requires the infrastructure from gettext-0.20 but this 
> > version
> >                is older. Please upgrade to gettext-0.20 or newer.
>
> It's complaining that the 'autopoint' program in $PATH is too old.
>
> Try excluding the module 'gettext' (which is marked obsolete) from
> your tests:
>
> ./gnulib-tool --create-testdir --dir=../"$GNULIB_TEST_DIR" --avoid=gettext 
> --single-configure
>
> If that does not fix it, install GNU gettext 0.20.1 from source
> with a --prefix=PREFIX, and add PREFIX/bin to your PATH.

Perfect, thanks.