gettext vs automake

[Leon Ho]

There are still requirement on mkinstalldirs on 0.14.1. I will probe
upstream later regarding this. But since I was planning to upgrade
gettext in FC2, I will upgrdae to 0.14.1 soon.

Regards,
Leon

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 18:14, Jens Petersen wrote:
> >>>>> "Owen" == Owen Taylor <otaylor at redhat.com> writes:
> 
>     Owen> On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 10:56, Tim Waugh wrote:
>     >> The automake we have in Fedora development no longer
>     >> provides mkinstalldirs, but the gettext m4 macros and
>     >> Makefile.in.in still want to use it.  The same goes
>     >> for glib-gettext.m4.
> 
> Well at least gettext still includes "/usr/share/gettext/mkinstalldirs".
> 
> >From Automake 1.8 entry in the NEWS file:
> 
>   - Because `mkdir -p' is available on most platforms, and we can use
>     `install-sh -d' when it is not, the use of the mkinstalldirs
>     script is being phased out.  `automake --add-missing' no longer
>     installs it, and if you remove mkinstalldirs from your package,
>     automake will define $(mkinstalldirs) as an alias for $(mkdir_p).
> 
>     Gettext 0.12.1 still requires mkinstalldirs.  Fortunately
>     gettextize and autopoint will install it when needed.  Automake
>     will continue to define the $(mkinstalldirs) and to distribute
>     mkinstalldirs when this script is in the source tree.
> 
> So I think you can run "gettextize -f -c" in your bootstrap
> script or just copy over /usr/share/gettext/mkinstalldirs
> directly if you're using glib-gettext as a "workaround".
> 
> (Fwiw gettext-0.14.1 still seems to require mkinstalldirs too.)
> 
>     >> Are these things that we need to fix before release?
>     >> I guess they'll prevent maintainers from being able
>     >> to release packages using Fedora Core 2..
> 
>     Owen> Well, you can always just use automake-1.7. We are
>     Owen> (I assume, since it's what GNOME-2.6 will require)
>     Owen> still shipping it.
> 
> We don't have an automake17 package yet, but since there
> have been requests for it, I will probably be adding one soon.
> 
>     Owen>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132858
> 
> In the long term I guess the requirement for mkinstalldirs
> will go away from gettext and the glib wrapper.
> 
> Jens
>