Re: [PATCHv2] bootstrap: warn about BSD toolchain snafu

2013-12-05 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/04/2013 01:12 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > for now we just warn about the situation. > > * build-aux/bootstrap: Alert users to a broken autom4te. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Blake > --- > build-aux/bootstrap | 10 +- > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) I've gone ahead and pu

[PATCHv2] bootstrap: warn about BSD toolchain snafu

2013-12-04 Thread Eric Blake
With my help on IRC, Roman Bogorodskiy identified a bug where the BSD autoconf wrapper script eats stdin[1], which in turn causes autopoint from gettext 0.18.3 to fail to find AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION out of configure.ac[2], with this error: ./bootstrap: autopoint --force autopoint: *** Missing vers