[Libguestfs] builder-ubuntu libguestfs FAILED build step 4b8f70d46dcfed1489c97f822e263b8615f21ea0

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:00:27AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 08:51:04AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >> Jim, this is the error message I had seen before:
> >>
> >> > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/rjones/d/libguestfs/po'
> >> > *** error: gettext infrastructure mismatch: using a Makefile.in.in
> >> > from gettext version 0.17 but the autoconf macros are from gettext
> >> > version 0.18
> >> > make[2]: *** [check-macro-version] Error 1
> >> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rjones/d/libguestfs/po'
> >
> > It only happens on the one Ubuntu VM, not on any other machine.
> 
> Looks like your .m4 files and Makefile.in.in are from gettext-0.18
> and that ubuntu system has gettext-0.17.

The Ubuntu system has gettext 0.18.1.1.

Our configure.ac has AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.17])

gettext.m4 is from gettext 0.18 (seems that this is not part of what
we ship in libguestfs, but it gets generated by something, because
this file is different on my Fedora machine - 0.17 there).

This is a big mess ... I'm going to try removing
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION completely.

Personally I've never understood why gettext can't be an ordinary
library.

Rich.

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