Re: make distcheck problems

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Jaka Mocnik wrote:

> hello!
>
> I was just about to release a preview of GGV port to GNOME 2, but I ran
> into a problem where I am at a complete loss:
>
> make distcheck generates the tarball but when it tries to compile it, I
> get the following error:
>
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jaka/cvs-gnome/ggv/ggv-1.99.0/=build'
> make  all-recursive
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jaka/cvs-gnome/ggv/ggv-1.99.0/=build'
> Making all in po
> make[3]: Entering directory
> `/home/jaka/cvs-gnome/ggv/ggv-1.99.0/=build/po'
> INTLTOOL_EXTRACT=../intltool-extract ../intltool-update --pot
> Read on closed filehandle <FILE> at ../intltool-update line 407.
> Read on closed filehandle <INFILE> at ../intltool-update line 440.
> intltool-update: AC_PACKAGE_NAME.po does not exist.
> make[3]: *** [../../po/ggv.pot] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/home/jaka/cvs-gnome/ggv/ggv-1.99.0/=build/po'
>
> the POTFILES.in in /home/jaka/cvs-gnome/ggv/ggv-1.99.0/=build/po is
> empty, while POTFILES.in in ggv-1.99.0 directory is OK.
>
> can someone help me? you can observe this with the ggv from CVS HEAD.
The AC_PACKAGE_NAME macro is from autoconf 2.5x.  Maybe intltool 
requires it these days?  Maybe if you upgrade to autoconf-2.52, the 
problem will go away.  I recommend everyone "make dist" with newer 
autoconfs where possible, as they will get rid of certain classes of bug 
reports (such as changing something and getting bitten by cached 
configure checks).  It also makes configure scripts easier to debug.

James.