Re: CI - builds are failing

[John Darrington]

That is strange.  It works for me.  I will rewrite it using
sed calls instead of parameter expansion and see if that's
any better for people.

J'

On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 03:22:55PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     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
     >