On 2021-02-19 00:38:11 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I've reverted the change. With 0.21 as the version, this makes > autoreconf fail on Debian stable because gettext is too old. > But gettext 0.21 isn't really required. Lowering the version > e.g. to 0.19 makes autopoint fail with both gettext 0.19 and > gettext 0.21. I'm wondering why. This macro may be buggy. Or > is there something wrong with the new Mutt code?
The reason is the following. Without an AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION line, autoreconf doesn't do anything about gettext. This does not seem to be needed for Mutt, so that everything is fine. But when this line is provided, autoreconf runs autopoint, which complains because it wants to override files already present in Mutt's repository (this is a bug in autoreconf, because --install without --force isn't supposed to add existing files). To avoid the failure, --force can be added, but it yields modifications in these gettext files already present in Mutt's repository. A workaround to avoid autopoint is to run AUTOPOINT=true autoreconf --install (so that "true" will be run instead of "autopoint"). But the warning may be less annoying. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
