Hello, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org>: > Hello, > > (Digging through old messages…) > > Robert Vollmert <r...@vllmrt.net> skribis: > > > When I run `make` in the guix repository, I always get the following > > block of warnings at the start: > > > > configure.ac:23: warning: The 'AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' macro is > > deprecated, and its use is discouraged. > > configure.ac:23: You should use the Autoconf-provided > > 'AC_PROG_MKDIR_P' macro instead, > > configure.ac:23: and use > > '$(MKDIR_P)' instead of '$(mkdir_p)'in > > your Makefile.am files. > > Makefile.am:613: warning: AM_GNU_GETTEXT used but 'po' not in SUBDIRS > > This has “always been around” and there’s nothing we can do on our > side.
Actually this has been fixed in gettext some time ago. The problem lies on the following line: configure.ac:24: AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.18.1]) This line is used by autopoint (called by autoreconf, called by bootstrap script) to install the macros from that exact version. The first warning can be removed simply bumping the version to 0.18.2, which includes that fix. The newer, the better, but that's the minimal version change. > However, one should definitely ping bug-gett...@gnu.org about this, it > seems silly to have these warnings for years. The warning left can be silly for Guix, as there are three different translation domains in a single source code base, so the setup is inherently more complex. It is not a bad idea at all for a small/medium size project to warn the missing po folder when the internationalization is being set up, as gettext "enforces" the use of recursive make into the it to get the translations targets; Guix does that not only once, but twice, and another time with different tools and make rules for the manual translation. This point maybe worths a discussion in bug-gett...@gnu.org, at least to give some way to disable it, but I had to clarify this beforehand, as guix usage is not the common case and one warning actually complies with our requested behaviour. Happy hacking, Miguel
