Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 114544
Upgrade to latest version
Last modified: 2007-04-18 13:02:19 EDT
Description of problem: The version of gettext in rawhide is incompatible with the version of automake we have. The Makefile.in.in wants to use mkinstalldirs which no longer exists, for example. Perhaps it's fixed upstream? How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Grab http://cyberelk.net/tim/data/eggcups/eggcups-0.0.4.tar.bz2 2. ./bootstrap && ./configure && make distcheck on FC1+updates 3. Try again on rawhide
Discussed on fedora-devel-list: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-January/msg01750.html Solution will be to create automake17 package.
Yes. gettext-0.14.1 still requires mkinstalldirs, so upgrading won't actually solve this problem, but probably wouldn't do any harm. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-January/msg01794.html The solution is just to make the bootstrap script copy mkinstalldirs into the source tree as needed. The gettext maintainer recommends either using autopoint or cp for this when using Automake 1.8., whereas Automake 1.7 does this for one. [IMHO bootstrap should be run on the clean cvs check out before it is tar.gz'ed up, ie the tarball should include the mkinstalldirs file, but perhaps I'm old-fashioned.]
Automake-1.8 certainly did *not* run autopoint for me in the case of eggcups -- I'm using AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT there though. I have now modified the bootstrap script to run autopoint. Of course eggcups was tarballed using './bootstrap; ./configure; make distcheck' as always -- but I had to do it on a Fedora Core 1+updates machine for 0.0.4.
Anyway, I have rebuilt gettext to 0.14.1 on fc2-head. Tim, do you happy with the solution which create the automake17 pkg?
Yes. I think automake17 will be needed sooner or later anyway.
Yep, because of http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-February/msg00202.html automake17 is going to be added anyway.
Closing now.