gettext vs automake

Owen Taylor otaylor at redhat.com
Thu Jan 29 20:27:39 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 10:56, Tim Waugh wrote:
> The automake we have in Fedora development no longer provides
> mkinstalldirs, but the gettext m4 macros and Makefile.in.in still want
> to use it.  The same goes for glib-gettext.m4.
> 
> Are these things that we need to fix before release?  I guess they'll
> prevent maintainers from being able to release packages using Fedora
> Core 2..
> 
> Or is it only me seeing it?

Well, you can always just use automake-1.7. We are (I assume, since
it's what GNOME-2.6 will require) still shipping it.

See:
  
 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132858

for discussion of a fix for the glib-gettext installed Makefile.in.in
 
Regards,
				          Owen






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