On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:02:29AM -0300, Damián Viano wrote: > I'd like to discuss about the fixes to this bugs also... > > On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 07:52:39PM -0300, Damián Viano wrote: > > The bugs I've seen from this rebuilt are mostly 3: > > - #386487: FTBFS: aclocal: macro `AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' required but not > > defined > > I'm not sure about this, but replacing the AC_REQUIRE([AM_PROG_MKDIR_P]) > call for AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_MKDIR_P]) in gettext.m4 and po.m4 seems to > fix it, although I'm not sure if this would be the better (or even > correct?) fix. Any comments regarding this Denis? > > > - #385235: gettext 0.15 causes build failures in multiple packages > > This is the plurals problem, and I think Douh! "...that's well explained in Santiago Vila's mail to -release http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2006/08/msg00107.html"; > > - some about @MKINSTALLDIRS@ failures, which was previously being > > defined in AM_GNU_GETTEXT and now it's not > > This one is my biggest doubt, and I see 3 options: > > - re-gettextize the packages (to get a newer version of the > po/Makefile.in.in) > - patch the po/Makefile.in.in > - Add the definition of MKINSTALLDIRS in AM_GNU_GETTEXT again > > I'd also like to hear comments from Denis on this, my own comments > follow... > > Re-gettextize is hard in most cases, the gettext Makefile.in.in changed > a lot, it uses an extra file (Makevars), and the case I tested couldn't > be represented in a diff (due to symlinks problems, although it might > be possible to avoid those). I see all this very difficult to do in a > rules file. > > Patching the Makefile.in.in seems the easiest way, specially if it was > already patched (or sed'ed). > > Adding the definition of MKINSTALLDIRS to AM_GNU_GETTEXT seems to be > quite easy too (my m4 foo is not strong enough to do this in a > reasonable way to provide a patch), and would be consistent to some > extent with other backward compatibility subts made there. The question > of which program should be used as MKINSTALLDIRS is not trivial *to me*, > can someone enlighten me about that? mkdir -p? install-sh -p? > mkinstalldirs again? could this possibly be defined according to the > required version of autotools/gettext? > > -- > Damián Viano(Des) ¯ ¯ - _ _ - ¯ ¯ > GPG: 0x6EB95A6F Debian ¯-_GNU_-¯ Linux > Web: http://damianv.com.ar/ ¯-¯ -- Damián Viano(Des) ¯ ¯ - _ _ - ¯ ¯ GPG: 0x6EB95A6F Debian ¯-_GNU_-¯ Linux Web: http://damianv.com.ar/ ¯-¯
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