Re: [PATCH 1/2] maint: Update gnulib and fix build failures

[Paul Eggert]

On 5/7/21 1:46 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 4/1/21 6:42 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> > I got failures when trying to bootstrap:
> >
> > bootstrap: getting translations into po/.reference for m4...
> > receiving incremental file list
> > rsync: change_dir "/latest/m4" (in tp) failed: No such file or directory (2)
> >
> > since m4-1.4 has no translation files, and the translation project
> > dropped the stale .po files for the unreleased 1.9 development branch.
>
> Paul, I now noticed that the use of .po files was intentional (you
> pushed commit 610290de adding gettext translation of author names back
> in July 2020, but without emailing m4-patches at the time).  How do you
> get around the bootstrap failure?

I don't get a failure now, I expect because you turned off po updates.

I don't recall trying to bootstrap from scratch when I installed that 
patch, so I imagine that it worked because a previous bootstrap worked.

> I guess what I need to do is release m4 1.4.18b to get a tarball with
> the .pot file, send that to the translation project, then wait a week
> before actually releasing 1.4.19 to see if I can pick up any .po files.

Sounds good.