gettextized (0.11.3-pre2) and now package compilation fails (missing ../po/config.status)

[Rapp, Perry]

Abstract:
  gettextized (0.11.3-pre2) and compilation fails for missing
po/config.status


Details:

I just did this
    gettextize --force --copy --intl

and my po/ChangeLog got this new entry:

2002-06-04  gettextize  <address@hidden>

        * Makefile.in.in: Upgrade to gettext-0.11.3-pre2.
        * Rules-quot: New file, from gettext-0.11.3-pre2.
        * boldquot.sed: New file, from gettext-0.11.3-pre2.
        * address@hidden: New file, from gettext-0.11.3-pre2.
        * address@hidden: New file, from gettext-0.11.3-pre2.
        * insert-header.sin: New file, from gettext-0.11.3-pre2.
        * quot.sed: New file, from gettext-0.11.3-pre2.
        * remove-potcdate.sin: New file, from gettext-0.11.3-pre2.


Then I went to my package root and did like so:

  aclocal; autoheader; automake; autoconf
         (NB: I first tried aclocal -I m4 as instructed, but it fails
with a duplicate macro error,
          because I have gettext-0.11.3-pre2 also installed on my system
as a system gettext)
  rm -rf build
  mkdir build
  cd build
  ../configure
  make

and the compilation fails because it can't find ../po/config.status


make[2]: Entering directory `/home/prapp/ll/lifelines/build/intl'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/prapp/ll/lifelines/build/intl'
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/prapp/ll/lifelines/build/po'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/config.status', needed by
`Makefile'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/prapp/ll/lifelines/build/po'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/prapp/ll/lifelines/build'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2


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I don't know anything about config.status -- I think it is
something generated automatically by either autotools or make,
and I never touch them (config.status files). Any suggestions ?

Of course, feel free to question me for any further details of
the system I did this test on.

I did not check in the gettextized (0.11.3-pre2) changes to my project,
but my current intl subdirectory (from 0.10.40) won't compile
successfully
if iconv is not present (perhaps it is not testing for HAVE_ICONV, or
something
else is going wrong), so I'm quite interested in upgrading. My thought
is that
I'd rather go to a newer gettext than debug an older one :)

Cordially,

Perry