Re: Work-around for bootstrap failure with gettext 0.18.3.1

[Pádraig Brady]

On 05/03/2014 10:35 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 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.

We wouldn't be wanting the cu-progs.m4 in other projects though,
so we should probably conditionalize that to just $package = coreutils.
It wouldn't be worth adding new hooks for this to generalize.

thanks,
Pádraig.