Re: Fix memleak in getdelim.m4

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Tim,

> >   rm -rf ../testdir-all; ./gnulib-tool --create-testdir 
> > --dir=../testdir-all --single-configure
> 
> This results in:
> 
> 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.
> autopoint: *** Stop.

You may try to pass '--avoid=gettext' to overcome this.

> As Debian unstable is at gettext 0.19.8.1, I tried to build gettext from
> git master. This results in
> 
> make[7]: Entering directory
> '/home/tim/src/gettext/gettext-tools/examples/tmp-hello-pascal'
> make[7]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1.  Add '+' to parent
> make rule.
> LOCALEDIR='/usr/local/share/locale' /usr/bin/ppcx64 -o./hello ./hello.pas
> Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.4+dfsg-23 [2019/11/25] for x86_64
> Copyright (c) 1993-2017 by Florian Klaempfl and others
> Target OS: Linux for x86-64
> Compiling ./hello.pas
> hello.pas(9,6) Fatal: Can't find unit gettext used by hello
> Fatal: Compilation aborted
> make[7]: *** [Makefile:798: hello.rsj] Error 1
> 
> 
> Is it really needed to fail the whole build just because a *PASCAL*
> example doesn't compile ?

I may sound a bit old-fashioned when I recommend tarballs over building from
git checkouts. But sometimes it has its advantages. gettext 0.20.2 is not
that old. [1]

Bruno

[1] https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.20.2.tar.gz