Re: gettext autoconf mismatch failure for opencsw 'old' Solaris CI

[Gavin Smith]

On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 10:01:19AM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 09:34:49AM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Actually, I am also confused by the lack of AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR in the
> > main directory, as I do not understand how autoreconf/aclocal can
> > determine that gnulib autoconf macros come from gnulib/m4.
> 
> Found it, there is a -I gnulib/m4 for the autogen.sh invocation.
> 
> Maybe we could have a m4 directory separate from gnulib/m4 for both
> libtool and gettext m4 files, also both for main configure.ac and
> tp/Texinfo/XS/configure.ac, and use AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR/AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS
> in both main configure.ac and tp/Texinfo/XS/configure.ac?

I've started work on this.  It seems to pass some checks but could
easily have problems.

The gnulib manual has some fiddly steps to follow for using gettext
along with gnulib:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/gettextize-and-autopoint.html

We aren't following these steps but maybe keeping a separate
directory m4 will actually work.

Running ./autogen.sh now seems very slow, taking over half a minute
to complete.