On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 05:55:15PM -0500, Raja R Harinath wrote: > Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 05:33:43PM -0500, Raja R Harinath wrote: > > >> Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > autoreconf has a habit of doing silly things like running autopoint, > >> > which then cheerfully adds a bunch of gunk to the source tree which > >> > you didn't want. I've never seen it actually do what I wanted, and > >> > frankly, it's far too complicated for what should be a trivial script. > >> > >> It does that only when you ask for 'gettext'. On most modern > >> machines, esp. on Debian, you should replace > >> > >> AM_GNU_GETTEXT > >> > >> with > >> > >> AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.12.1]) # or appropriate version > >> AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) > >> > >> and thinks will be peachier. > > > > All that does is stop including a complete copy of libintl in your > > source tree. autopoint still wants to add a few dozen files. The best > > solution is to not run autopoint at all, since it doesn't do anything > > useful if you don't want to include a copy of gettext in your > > distributed tarballs. > > But, you asked for with AM_GNU_GETTEXT. > > AFAIR, the files are all limited to the po/ directory, and they're all > used either by AM_GNU_GETTEXT or po/Makefile.in.in.
No, there are about half a dozen files in po/ which aren't needed, and then there's all the m4 macros. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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