AM_GNU_GETTEXT weirdness

[Marius Vollmer]

Hi,

running ./autogen.sh now runs gettextize and that causes some
'useless' things to happen, like the creation of po/ and the inclusion
of po/Makefile.in in _all_ AC_CONFIG_FILES statements in configure.in.

I guess all this happens for the benefit of programs that want to
internationalize/localize themselves.  Right?  Do we need po/?

Worse, automake now fails with:

  Makefile.am:26: AM_GNU_GETTEXT used but `po' not in SUBDIRS

Including po in SUBDIRS results in

    Making all in po
    make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mvo/work/guile/guile-core/po'
    make[2]: *** No rule to make target `all'.  Stop.
    make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mvo/work/guile/guile-core/po'
    make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
    make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mvo/work/guile/guile-core'
    make: *** [all] Error 2

So what should we do?  Include po in SUBDIRS or somehow cope without
AM_GNU_GETTEXT?


Simply wrapping gettext and friends turns out to have a much larger
effect than I thought.  I fully expect that there are people out there
without gettext and Guile will not build for them.  What then?
Include libintl in Guile?

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