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Re: AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) broken
- From: Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org>
- To: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Cc: tromey at redhat dot com
- Cc: automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 17:38:41 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) broken
- References: <3D2F4293.2010307@ece.gatech.edu>
Charles Wilson wrote:
> gettext.m4 doesn't set BUILD_INCLUDED_GETTEXT or
> USE_INCLUDED_GETTEXT (to 'no') when 'external' is specified; the
> variables are left unspec'ed. **probably** not a problem -- unless
> you gettextize in order to work around the automake bug, like I did
> <g> -- in which case your project's build will fail trying to make
> 'all-@BUILD_INCLUDED_GETTEXT@' in the "unused" intl/ directory...
You should use the 'external' flag if and only if you don't have the
intl directory in the package. If you call gettextize with --intl,
then you need to remove the 'external' flag at the same time.
Bruno