Re: [bug #47566] Loosing LocalData with texi2any

[Gavin Smith]

On 1 April 2016 at 07:02, Vincent Belaïche <address@hidden> wrote:

> So, the problem can be reworded as follows: when gettext is not
> installed, the tp/Makefile is generated with gettext tools silently
> replaced by the `:' command, so it will silently fail to generate the
> LocalData. There should be at least a warning.
>

Looks like the test is done in the AM_PO_SUBDIRS macro in
configure.ac, which is brought in by AM_GNU_GETTEXT. I think you can
check the USE_NLS environment variable in configure.ac to check
whether the check was successful. Feel free to propose a patch if you
feel strongly about the lack of a warning.