James Youngman wrote: > I am using gettext version 0.14.6. Its version of po/Makefile.in.in > uses @MKINSTALLDIRS@, but the m4 files in current gnulib do not > substitute that variable. This means that the generated po/Makefile > contains a naked @[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I think that's an incompatibility between current gnulib and > gettext-0.14.6.
The analysis is correct. The MKINSTALLDIRS was removed from gettext's *.m4 macros and from Makefile.in.in on the same day, 2006-04-17. There is no long-term stable interface between *.m4 and Makefile.in.in. This means, you need to take both from the same version. And gnulib here counts as the newest released gettext version. > Is that deliberate? It's known, and is to some extent unavoidable (because caring too much about backward compatibility can kill progress). => To work with gnulib, you need the newest gettext release and apply gnulib-tool after autopoint (so that gnulib's changes override the macros from the gettext release). Bruno
