Re: gettext version-numbering problems in Bison (+ Bison patch)

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

 Paul> * Currently autopoint greps configure.ac for lines; I guess it should
 Paul> be tracing instead.  I can't put the AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION line in
 Paul> an M4 macro in m4/something.m4, for example.  (I tried this as my
 Paul> first workaround attempt.)

Unfortunately you cannot trace until aclocal has run, and
presently gettextize/autopoint need to run before aclocal to
install the m4 files.

In http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2004-04/msg00082.html
Gary and I discussed a possible solution.  The problem is that it
requires changes to M4 if one wants to select macro for one of several
versions of a package (as in the case of Gettext, or even Automake if
aclocal is moved to Autoconf), and that isn't likely to occur soon.

Chicken-and-egg-ly y'rs,
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz