Re: Work-around for bootstrap failure with gettext 0.18.3.1

[Pádraig Brady]

On 05/03/2014 01:39 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Coreutils' bootstrap script fails (in a freshly cloned directory) with 
> gettext 0.18.3.1.
> 
> This has been discussed few times on the mailing list:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-11/msg00038.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2014-01/msg00058.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2014-04/msg00106.html
> 
> And already resolved (with recommendation to upgrade to 0.18.3.2):
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40083
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gettext/+bug/1311895
> 
> But version 0.18.3.1 is still "out there" and hasn't been upgraded in several 
> distributions.
> 
> Would you be receptive to add the following minor work-around for "bootstrap" 
> ?
> It creates the two needed files, which allows "autopoint" to continue, then 
> "gnulib" immediately overrides them with the correct versions.
> 
> Comments are welcomed,
>  - gordon
> 
> P.S.
> So far I have only tested it on Ubuntu 14.04 (with gettext 0.18.3.1) and 
> Debian 7 (with gettext 0.18.1.1-9).

While all the main distros are now updated
the workaround is simple enough to include.
I'll add a comment to remove in 2015 and
apply to gnulib and coreutils.

thanks!
Pádraig.