Description of problem: AC_PROG_INTLTOOL stopped working if there is 'tab' on the beginning of the line. See: https://issues.imfreedom.org/issue/PIDGIN-17509 for details. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): intltool-0.51.0-18.fc35 autoconf-2.71-1.fc34.noarch.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Rebuild pidgin without the pidgin-2.14.1-autoconf-2.71-build-fix.patch Actual results: $ autoreconf -fi libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'. libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh' libtoolize: Consider adding 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4])' to configure.ac, libtoolize: and rerunning libtoolize and aclocal. libtoolize: Consider adding '-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am. ERROR: 'IT_PROG_INTLTOOL' must appear in configure.ac for intltool to work. autoreconf: error: intltoolize failed with exit status: 1 Expected results: No error Additional info: It's failing because of the 'tab' before the AC_PROG_INTLTOOL. With autoconf < 2.71 it doesn't fail. Maybe it's intltool bug, I don't know, starting with the autoconf, because it breaks with the autoconf update.
Posted to upstream: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2021-04/msg00000.html Thanks for your report!
Response from upstream: "This appears to be a portability bug in intltool; see <https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool/+bug/1921816>. So I wouldn't worry about it as an Autoconf developer." I would change the component to intltool and re-assign it.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 35 development cycle. Changing version to 35.
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