Bug#983076: autoconf: autoreconf's gettext handling is buggy
Package: autoconf
Version: 2.69-14
Severity: normal
In the autoreconf(1) man page:
-i, --install
copy missing auxiliary files
However, when AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION is used, autoreconf runs
autopoint, which wants to override existing files, and fails
if existing files do not have the same contents as the autopoint
files:
autopoint: File ABOUT-NLS has been locally modified.
autopoint: File config.rpath has been locally modified.
autopoint: File m4/iconv.m4 has been locally modified.
autopoint: File po/Makefile.in.in has been locally modified.
autopoint: File po/Rules-quot has been locally modified.
autopoint: File po/en@boldquot.header has been locally modified.
autopoint: File po/en@quot.header has been locally modified.
autopoint: File po/insert-header.sin has been locally modified.
autopoint: File po/remove-potcdate.sin has been locally modified.
autopoint: *** Some files have been locally modified. Not overwriting them because --force has not been specified. For your convenience, you find the local modifications in the file '/tmp/arBTaNwR/gt73Yphm/autopoint.diff'.
autopoint: *** Stop.
autoreconf: autopoint failed with exit status: 1
This "error" should not be fatal for autoreconf.
As a workaround, in such a project (here, the current Mutt master),
it seems that AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION may not be necessary. But if
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION is not used, autoreconf warns:
autoreconf: configure.ac: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used, but not AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages autoconf depends on:
ii debianutils 4.11.2
ii m4 1.4.18-5
ii perl 5.32.1-2
Versions of packages autoconf recommends:
ii automake [automaken] 1:1.16.3-2
Versions of packages autoconf suggests:
ii autoconf-archive 20190106-2.1+local1
ii autoconf-doc 2.69-14
ii gettext 0.21-4
ii gnu-standards 2010.03.11-1.1
ii libtool 2.4.6-15+local1
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