Re: delete aclocal.m4? keep generated files on cvs server? enforce specefic automake/conf version?

[Andrew Suffield]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 05:55:15PM -0500, Raja R Harinath wrote:
> Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 05:33:43PM -0500, Raja R Harinath wrote:
> 
> >> Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> writes:
> >> 
> >> > autoreconf has a habit of doing silly things like running autopoint,
> >> > which then cheerfully adds a bunch of gunk to the source tree which
> >> > you didn't want. I've never seen it actually do what I wanted, and
> >> > frankly, it's far too complicated for what should be a trivial script.
> >> 
> >> It does that only when you ask for 'gettext'.  On most modern
> >> machines, esp. on Debian, you should replace
> >> 
> >>   AM_GNU_GETTEXT
> >> 
> >> with
> >> 
> >>   AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.12.1]) # or appropriate version 
> >>   AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])
> >> 
> >> and thinks will be peachier.
> >
> > All that does is stop including a complete copy of libintl in your
> > source tree. autopoint still wants to add a few dozen files. The best
> > solution is to not run autopoint at all, since it doesn't do anything
> > useful if you don't want to include a copy of gettext in your
> > distributed tarballs.
> 
> But, you asked for with AM_GNU_GETTEXT.
> 
> AFAIR, the files are all limited to the po/ directory, and they're all
> used either by AM_GNU_GETTEXT or po/Makefile.in.in.

No, there are about half a dozen files in po/ which aren't needed, and
then there's all the m4 macros.

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