Re: CVS & Gettext

[Bruno Haible]

Akim Demaille writes:

> | It should never run
> | gettextize automatically, because it has no way to do the remaining
> | 20% of the job, which gettextize doesn't do.
> 
> Fortunately, it does not.  Just as in the case of Gettext, reading the
> documentation can be helpful to know what it does.  If you don't
> --install, it will never do such a thing.  If you have Gettext
> installed and you don't --force, it won't either.

OK, please say so in the documentation. In 2.53, the documentation
says that gettextize is run "when appropriate".

> The only problematic problem is that gettextize doesn't
> check if intl/Makefile is already in configure.in before adding it.
> 
> Would you accept a patch to gettextize that would make sure gettextize
> does not change something it should not?

I wasn't aware of this bug. In the tests I made, running gettextize
a second time didn't change anything. Can you provide a testcase?

Bruno