Simon Josefsson wrote on 2009-08-31: > > Until then, you have to overwrite autopoint'ed files with copies brought in > > by gnulib-tool. > > Is this still the recommended practice for using autopoint and > gnulib-tool together? > > I ran into an issue where size_max.m4 imported by autopoint was older > than the copy provided by gnulib.
Yes, exactly this can happen. Documented in <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/gettextize-and-autopoint.html> > Overwriting the m4 files created by > autopoint with gnulib-tool causes autoconf, automake, ./configure etc to > be re-run before 'make' works, which significantly slows down building > my projects, so I'd like to find some other solution. autopoint and gnulib-tool are both in the same category of tools: They fetch missing files from elsewhere. autoconf, automake come later: They generate files from given files. configure and make come afterwards. In regular development, I would expect that you regularly modify some configure.ac or Makefile.am, which don't require autopoint or gnulib-tool to be run. Only seldom you decide to require more gnulib modules. No? Bruno
