Re: can't build GNU make from savannah git

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 23:25 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Mike Gran wrote:
> > n the README.git , it says that you need to do a "make update"
> > between the "configure" and the "make" step.  I think you skipped
> > that part.
> 
> Ah, thanks, I did skip it.  Shouldn't the 'make' build procedure be 
> smart enough to figure this one out on its own?

Unfortunately it's not quite obvious to me how to better integrate this.
The po files are built by a predefined "Makefile.in.in" that comes with
gettext, which has no facility for downloading PO files.

Anyway I think I'd prefer to resolve this, ultimately, by providing one
of the common "autogen" etc. scripts that will automatically invoke the
correct autotools (and make update) in the correct order.

I haven't done that yet, but I will soon push a fix for the other config
issues you ran into.