Re: First submission?

[Jose E. Marchesi]

> Hi Jose and Will.
>
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2023 at 05:57:21PM +0200, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
>> 
>> > Despite years of experience with the
>> >
>> > ./autoreconf
>> > ./configure
>> > make
>> > make install
>> >
>> > dance, I got caught a bit off guard by the use of autopoint and where
>> > to find it in Fedora. I learned that it is part of gettext
>> > (gettext-devel package on Fedora) and your documentation about
>> > Autotools (in HACKING) infers that.
>> 
>> We have gettext 0.18.2 listed as a build prerequisite in bootstrap.conf
>> (see the buildreq variable defined there.)  What is the error message
>> you get from running the bootstrap script?
>> 
>> Do the Fedora `gettext' package provide autopoing, or it is in some
>> subpackage or similar?
>> 
>
> In Fedora it's in the `gettext-devel'. In `DEPENDENCIES' file (it's already
> like this: "On Red Hat distributions: --.").
>
> In Debian, they package `autopiont' in its own package:
>   https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=autopoint
>
> Also Debian part needs an update in `DEPENDENCIES' file.
>
> Will, `DEPENDENCIES' file (and other docs) need some love! Thank you
> :)

Again, DEPENDENCIES documents how to build a distribution sources
tarball.  You shouldn't need to run autopoint on a tarball.

So, that documentation regarding debian and redhat belongs to HACKING,
not DEPENDENCIES.

>
>
> Regards,
> Mohammad-Reza