Re: [bug] gettext 0.14.1 : intl/Makefile.in has broken dependency

[Bruno Haible]

Dalibor Topic wrote:
> For kaffe, I've changed the line
>
> $(OBJECTS): ../config.h libgnuintl.h
>
> to
>
> $(OBJECTS): $(top_builddir)/config/config.h libgnuintl.h
>
> since in our configure.in we have
>
> AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config/config.h include/kaffe/jtypes.h])
>
> so that config.h resides in a subdirectory.

Since the gettext documentation assumes that config.h.in is in the top level
you cannot use the approach to distribute the intl/ directory. What you can
do instead is to call AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]), and invoke gettextize
without the --intl option.

> Autotools seem to define a
> variable CONFIG_HEADER that may be useful instead of the hardcoded (and
> in our case wrong) path.

They define CONFIG_HEADERS. It's too hairy for gettextize to guess which
of the .h files to depend on; there may be multiple config.h files, or they
may be named differently. I therefore cannot extend gettextize the way you
suggest.

Thanks for the report, anyway.

Bruno