Re: Bug#192159: undocumented: autopoint/gettextize depend on the*ORDER* of dirs in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS (fwd)

[Bruno Haible]

Jürgen A. Erhard wrote:

> As I found out when upgrading an older project, gettextize (and by judging
> from the source, autopoint also) needs the package-local m4 dir
> as the *first* -I in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS.
> 
> I had /usr/local/share/aclocal there, which confused it to no end (it tried to
> create symlinks in there!)
> 
> This needs to be documented... better yet, there should be some sanity check,
> like "if the m4dir is an absolute path, reject it"

Thanks for reporting this. gettext-0.12 will have a sanity check of
the form "if the m4dir is an absolute path, ignore it".

Bruno