Re: 0.11.5: gettextize with external

[Bruno Haible]

Akim Demaille writes:
> the following paragraph is not honored by gettextize:
> 
> `aclocal.m4' at top level
> -------------------------
> 
>    If you do not have an `aclocal.m4' file in your distribution, the
> simplest is to concatenate the files `codeset.m4', `gettext.m4',
> `glibc21.m4', `iconv.m4', `intdiv0.m4', `inttypes.m4', `inttypes_h.m4',
> `inttypes-pri.m4', `isc-posix.m4', `lcmessage.m4', `lib-ld.m4',
> `lib-link.m4', `lib-prefix.m4', `progtest.m4', `stdint_h.m4',
> `uintmax_t.m4', `ulonglong.m4' from GNU `gettext''s `m4/' directory
> into a single file.  If you have suppressed the `intl/' directory, only
> `gettext.m4', `iconv.m4', `lib-ld.m4', `lib-link.m4', `lib-prefix.m4',
> `progtest.m4' need to be concatenated.

This paragraph is a recipe for the user who doesn't use the 'aclocal'
program. It is not a precise description how 'gettextize' works.

> Running gettextize on a project that is not including intl/ still
> copies and installs m4 files that are not needed.

It is correct. If gettextize did not copy these files, the subsequent
'aclocal' invocation would fail. I consider this a bug in the
'aclocal' program version 1.5.

Bruno