Re: some questions about gettext

[Bruno Haible]

Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> > Strange: intl/Makefile.in has a VPATH line that should take care of this.
>
> How does that work ? grepping the file for VPATH or vpath didn't turn up
> anything.

The VPATH line was missing in gettext 0.12. Try a newer version.

> On an unrelated note, maybe it would be nice if it could detect automake
> is being used and just generate a Makefile.am instead ?

This is planned for the future.

> > Anyway, if you use AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) you avoid carrying around
> > the entire intl/* sources with your package, and it also fixes this
> > problem.
>
> True.  any drawbacks to that ?

None that wouldn't be mentioned in the documentation.

> Well, I was more thinking about the problem where I on Fedora have one
> version, and someone else on debian a different one, and it's impossible
> to get it to work for both.

autopoint and AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION solve this problem.

Bruno