[Bug-gnulib] Re: autoreconf imports too many files

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert writes:
> I have trouble with gettextize, autoreconf, etc.; they botch things
> too often for my comfort.  For example, CVS Bison currently bootstraps
> incorrectly because it uses autoreconf, and autoreconf puts too many
> gettext .m4 files into Bison's m4 subdirectory.  I haven't had time to
> look into why this botch occurs.

gettextize and autopoint (as called by autoreconf) copy the whole set
of .m4 files even if there is no intl/ directory, otherwise "aclocal -I m4"
might give an error.  (aclocal doesn't know which macros are really
needed, it looks which macros are potentially needed.)

So I don't see a way to correct this, other than a complete
reimplementation of 'aclocal'.

Bruno