Re: Bug#548750: [gettext] Fails to recognize 0.10 < 0.17 (wrong gettext version comparison) (fwd)

[Bruno Haible]

Jens Seidel wrote:
> extracting the attached tgz ball into a temporary directory and calling
> autogen.sh results in:
> 
> ./autogen.sh 
> autopoint: *** The AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION declaration in your
> configure.ac               file requires the infrastructure from
> gettext-0.10 but this version               is older. Please upgrade to
> gettext-0.10 or newer.
> autopoint: *** Stop.

The configure.ac in that package contains the line

  AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(0.10)

This is not right according to the documentation

  
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/AM_005fGNU_005fGETTEXT_005fVERSION.html

because your package is certainly not using GNU gettext infrastructure from
version 0.10 - that version is 15 years old and obsolete for 10 years.

It looks like a typo in your configure.ac file.

Not a bug in GNU gettext - version 0.10 is simply unsupported.

Bruno