minor autoconf/automake annoyances

[Jasper Huijsmans]

I'm afraid I can't confirm that it works with the older versions.

On the other hand, I think I found my gettext problem:

At the end of configure.in there is a sed command on po/Makefile.in to
po/Makefile.
However, po/Makefile is already created by configure! If I commant out
this line I get the proper result.

Am I the only one with this problem?

Op di 23-04-2002, om 20:26 schreef Edscott Wilson Garcia:
> On Tuesday 23 April 2002 16:10, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> > By no means am I an expert on automake issues, so I may be talking utter
> > nonsense here.
> 
> That makes at least two of us ;-)
> 
> Some time ago I tried automake 1.5 and it didn't work right. AFAIR, Guido said 
> something about it being broken. Although I do get some AM_this_and_that 
> warnings, automake-1.4p5 works ok here.
> 
> > Also, most/all of the things I found may be caused by my use of
> > slackware-current tools: autoconf 2.53, automake 1.5, gettext 0.11.
> > Anyway, I found the following 'problems':
> >
> > 1) make regenerates files (see earlier post on the subject). This can
> > suposedly be changed by putting AM_MAINTAINER_MODE in configure.in. It
> > seems to work for me.
> >
> > 2) If you do a make clean after configure, make quits with an error
> > about a lot of missing .dep/* files. This seems a bit strange to me.
> >
> > 3) automake has two errors about noinst_DATA not being defined in
> > xfglob/icons/Makefile.am and xfwm/Makfile.am.
> > This can be solved by moving the definitions up before the use of the
> > variable.
> >
> > 4) make fails in po/ because @CATALOGS@ and @POFILES@ are
> > not expanded by configure. I'm guessing that it's a problem with
> > gettext, but --with-included-gettext doesn't seem to work for me.
> > BTW, on a side-note, gettext also complains about empty strings marked
> > for translation in xfce/xtree_toolbar.c and xfsamba/xfsamba_gui.c.
> >
> >
> > I can change 1) and 3) in CVS if you want. I have no idea whether 2) and
> > 4) are caused by my setup or something else.
> 
> If the changes make it work with automake 1.5 without breaking the way it 
> works with automake 1.4p5, I can think of no good reason why not to commit.
> 
> saludos,
> 
> Edscott
> 
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