Re: [PATCH] get rid of deprecated AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT

[Tim Janik <timj gnu org>]

Thanks for the patch, Stefan.
On 25.04.2016 15:25, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
>    Hi!
>
> So here is my attempt to get rid of the deprecated AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT macro.
> It is quite easy to use AM_GNU_GETTEXT instead. However, you may want to change
> the version to something lower than 0.19.7 (thats what KUbuntu 16.04 ships).

Hm, please take a look at: https://travis-ci.org/tim-janik/beast
Besides Xenial, we currently also build on willy and jessie, what version is good enough to fit all three 
systems?

> Its important that you do not indent the line containing the version macro,
> because only an unindented line will be found by autoreconf (which only then
> invokes autopoint).

I've run into this with other configure.ac magic in the past. The whole autoconf story feels very fragile to 
me.
Short of switching configure tools (for which I don't really know a good alternative), should we flatten our
self defined configuration macros? I.e. simply expand macros like RAPICORN_CORE_REQUIREMENTS, get rid of the
AC_DEFUN and use some simple section headers instead? Ala "# == Rapicorn Core Requisrement =="
Opinions?

>    Cu... Stefan
>
> Stefan Westerfeld (1):
>   BUILD: use AM_GNU_GETTEXT instead of deprecated AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT
>
>  autotools/glib-gettext.m4 | 433 ----------------------------------------------
>  configure.ac              |   4 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 435 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 autotools/glib-gettext.m4

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Yours sincerely,
Tim Janik

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