Hi Bruno, Thanks for the advice, see below for the result.
Hi Pádraig, Jim, Is there anything else I can do to help you incorporate this, and the matching bootstrap.conf I wrote for you into coreutils now that the release is out? All, Sorry for the late reply, thanks to unreasonably late raining season storms; my electricity and Internet have been off and on a lot recently. On 7 Oct 2011, at 02:54, Bruno Haible wrote: > Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> There is >> an underlying assumption here that if AM_GNU_GETTEXT was seen in >> configure.ac, >> then >> gettext was checked for already, and so autopoint should be available too. >> Perhaps >> the right fix, then, is to note when configure.ac indicates that autopoint is >> necessary to bootstrap, and causes bootstrap to exit with a diagnostic if >> not? > > Absolutely, yes. One of the purposes of 'bootstrap' is to recover all files > that were omitted from version control. Regarding gettext's infrastructure, > the fact that such files were omitted are indicated by the presence of > an invocation of AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION, see > <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Files-under-CVS.html> > > If such an invocation is present, and 'autopoint' is not present in $PATH > or found through the AUTOPOINT environment variable, you should bail out. > It makes no sense to continue if the script cannot produce the necessary > files. I checked in a small patch today to do the AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION check using the autopoint binary instead of the gettext binary, which causes my saner bootstrap to behave exactly as you describe. Now, in my coreutils branch: $ ./bootstrap bootstrap: `./bootstrap' differs from `./gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap', bootstrap: please consider adopting the canonical version from gnulib. bootstrap: error: `autopoint' not found bootstrap: error: README-prereq explains how to obtain these prerequisite programs: bootstrap: Program Min_version Homepage bootstrap: ----------------------------------------------------------- bootstrap: bison - http://www.gnu.org/s/bison bootstrap: git 1.4.4 http://git-scm.com bootstrap: gperf - http://www.gnu.org/s/gperf bootstrap: gzip - http://www.gnu.org/s/gzip bootstrap: makeinfo - http://www.gnu.org/s/texinfo bootstrap: patch - http://www.gnu.org/s/patch bootstrap: perl 5.5 http://perl.com bootstrap: rsync - http://www.samba.org/rsync bootstrap: tar - http://www.gnu.org/s/tar bootstrap: xz - http://tukaani.org/xz bootstrap: autoconf 2.64 http://www.gnu.org/s/autoconf bootstrap: automake 1.11.1 http://www.gnu.org/s/automake bootstrap: autopoint 0.18.1 http://www.gnu.org/s/gettext bootstrap: ----------------------------------------------------------- $ PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/gettext/0.17/bin:$PATH ./bootstrap bootstrap: `./bootstrap' differs from `./gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap', bootstrap: please consider adopting the canonical version from gnulib. bootstrap: error: `autopoint' version == 0.17 is too old bootstrap: `autopoint' version >= 0.18 is required [[...]] $ AUTOPOINT=/usr/local/Cellar/gettext/0.18.1.1/bin/autopoint ./bootstrap -v [[...]] bootstrap: found `/usr/local/Cellar/gettext/0.18.1.1/bin/autopoint' version >= 0.18.1 [[...]] I've pushed this version to my github mirror of coreutils: https://github.com/gvvaughan/GNU-coreutils/blob/gary/bootstrap/bootstrap Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)
