Re: gettext-0.11 trivial configure.in typo

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: Re: gettext-0.11 trivial configure.in typo, Bruno Haible said...:

>Tim Mooney writes:
>> While rebuilding the configure machinery with more recent tools,
>> autoconf 2.52 pointed out:
>>
>> configure.in:120: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_TRY_COMPILER
>>
>> Looks like a typo to me
>
>It is not a typo. AC_TRY_COMPILER and AC_TRY_COMPILE are quite
>different macros.

Ok, I had a hunch that might be the case, though I've never seen
AC_TRY_COMPILER.

>> As a heads up, it's also worthwhile to note that autoconf 2.52g and
>> presumably later versions will now error out rebuilding configure if
>> you modify LIBOBJS directly, which gettext does.  You're apparently
>> supposed to use AC_LIBOBJS instead.
>
>Thanks for the tip, but gettext will continue to use autoconf-2.13 for
>at least a year.

Ok.  Thanks for your work on gettext -- it's improved greatly since you
took on maintainership.

Tim
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