Re: CI - builds are failing

[Ben Pfaff]

There's something wrong with the new version check. It doesn't work on
my system.

When I apply the following:

diff --git a/acinclude.m4 b/acinclude.m4
index 14f746effa..c9a3334772 100644
--- a/acinclude.m4
+++ b/acinclude.m4
@@ -360,10 +360,13 @@ AC_DEFUN([PSPP_CHECK_XGETTEXT],
  [AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether gettext is sufficiently recent],
    [pspp_cv_progrecent_xgettext],
    [pspp_cv_progrecent_xgettext=maybe
+    echo "$ac_cv_prog_XGETTEXT --version"
     ver=`$ac_cv_prog_XGETTEXT --version | sed -n -e
'/xgettext/s/[[^0-9]]*\([[0-9\.]][[0-9\.]]*\).*/\1/p'`
+    echo "ver=$ver"
     major=${ver%%.[[0-9]][[0-9]]*}
     majmin=${ver%.[[0-9]][[0-9]]*}
     minor=${majmin##[0-9]*.}
+    echo "major=$major majmin=$majmin minor=$minor"
     if test "$major" -lt 0; then
       pspp_cv_progrecent_xgettext=no;
     elif test "$minor" -lt 20; then

I get this output from configure (and then it fails):

checking whether gettext is sufficiently recent... xgettext --version
ver=0.21
major=0 majmin=0 minor=0

I'm using Debian testing.

On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 5:57 AM John Darrington
<john@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
>
> So far as I can make out from the information there, it stopped working
> with this commit:
>
>
> commit 210739b77d0f943b5073375fe39d1f09723adb2c (HEAD -> master, 
> savannah/master)
> Author: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
> Date:   Sat Jan 2 10:57:23 2021 +0100
>
>     Recent gettext to version 0.20 or later
>
>
> I'm suprised that Debian sid, and Debian testing stopped working, because
> as recently discussed both those distributions contain recent gettext 
> versions.
>
> Can you perhaps look into the situation to find out what is going wrong?
>
>
> J'
>
>
>
>
> 41;344;0cOn Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 01:22:12PM +0100, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
>      the latest commits result in failing builds:
>
>      http://caeis.etech.fh-augsburg.de:8010/#/
>
>      Fritz
>