On Wed, Sep 16, 2026, at 1:52 PM, Kamila Szewczyk wrote:
> - Inform the autoconf upstream ([email protected]) that autoreconf
> should run libtoolize --ltdl before recursing into subdirectories,
> since libtoolize is what fills them.
Does this change look right to you? I know autopoint may also populate
subdirectories, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if gtkdocize and
intltoolize did (but I know next to nothing about them).
This needs tests; are any of you up to writing one? I don't know when
I will have time. Also, is anyone up to doing a distribution archive
rebuild with this patch applied? Changes to order of operations in
autorepoint have a relatively high risk of breaking something.
zw
diff --git i/bin/autoreconf.in w/bin/autoreconf.in
index 65570cf8..65bf9eae 100644
--- i/bin/autoreconf.in
+++ w/bin/autoreconf.in
@@ -809,20 +809,6 @@ sub autoreconf_current_directory ($)
}
$traces->close;
- # The subdirs are *optional*, they may not exist.
- foreach (@subdir)
- {
- if (-d)
- {
- verb "$configure_ac: adding subdirectory $_ to autoreconf";
- autoreconf ($_);
- }
- else
- {
- verb "$configure_ac: subdirectory $_ not present";
- }
- }
-
# Gettext consistency checks.
# Some projects intentionally don't call AM_GNU_GETTEXT_(REQUIRE_)VERSION
# because they have all of the gettext infrastructure checked into version
@@ -969,6 +955,28 @@ sub autoreconf_current_directory ($)
$rerun_aclocal = 1 if $invoked_autopoint && !@macro_dirs;
+ # --------------------------- #
+ # Processing subdirectories. #
+ # --------------------------- #
+
+ # The subdirs are *optional*, they may not exist. This needs to
+ # happen after everything that might populate a subdirectory
+ # (autopoint and libtoolize in particular may do this) but before
+ # the second run of aclocal at this level.
+ foreach (@subdir)
+ {
+ if (-d)
+ {
+ verb "$configure_ac: adding subdirectory $_ to autoreconf";
+ autoreconf ($_);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ verb "$configure_ac: subdirectory $_ not present";
+ }
+ }
+
+
# ------------------- #
# Rerunning aclocal. #
# ------------------- #
