Confusing behavior with autoreconf and gettext in the openzfs project

2020-12-28 Thread Eli Schwartz
is a case where the project is wrong for doing it in *.m4 and must change? And why did this only fail once autoconf 2.70 came along? I'd like to better understand this so I can, most likely, argue the case upstream to move the macros into configure.ac -- Eli Schwartz Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

Re: Confusing behavior with autoreconf and gettext in the openzfs project

2021-01-04 Thread Eli Schwartz
ug-fix release coming out some time this week. Hmm, so if I understand correctly, then if you do want to run autopoint and copy the system gettext.m4 etc in place... then you will need both macros to be in (promoted to) configure.ac ? -- Eli Schwartz Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

Re: Autoconf version number after 2.70

2021-01-06 Thread Eli Schwartz
ant everyone to package and use ASAP with expedited testing. There should never be a reason *not* to upgrade from "version" to "version+hotfix". tl;dr Name your hotfixes something recognizably different from your feature releases. -- Eli Schwartz Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Expansion of @libexecdir@ in .desktop.in file includes ${exec_prefix}

2021-01-18 Thread Eli Schwartz
edit" command in Makefile.am, described here: https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.70/html_node/Installation-Directory-Variables.html -- Eli Schwartz Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Future plans for Autotools

2021-01-22 Thread Eli Schwartz
ant their builds to configure without big yellow warnings, they need to migrate to "the newer way". Obviously this doesn't guarantee meson is always *successful* in being backwards-compatible. :) -- Eli Schwartz Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Confusing behavior with autoreconf and gettext in the openzfs project

2021-01-25 Thread Eli Schwartz
t trunk as commit 66fdaea3cfb4e758212c1891913e9a59441d49af, and the 2.70 branch as 35b1708c3961dce31e4ce43014e71d77aa4b5e31. It will be included in the bug-fix release coming out some time this week. Is this still imminently planned? -- Eli Schwartz Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Tr

Re: Confusing behavior with autoreconf and gettext in the openzfs project

2021-01-25 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 1/25/21 10:29 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote: On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:23 AM Eli Schwartz wrote: On 1/4/21 5:42 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: I think what this project actually wants, at least for right now, is to not run autopoint. To make that possible again, I have demoted the "AM_GNU_GE