Re: Death of gnome-common

[Javier Jardón <jjardon gnome org>]

On 16 August 2015 at 10:31, Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Sébastien,

> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:47:47PM +0100, Philip Withnall wrote:
> > There’s a migration guide here:
> >
> > https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeCommon/Migration
> >
> > We’ve tried to make the transition as easy and smooth as possible, but
> > there will inevitably be hiccups. Please let me know about anything
> > which breaks or doesn’t make sense. First person to complain about
> > -Wswitch-enum gets a prize.
>
> I've migrated GtkSourceView, and now when running autogen.sh I see those
> messages:
>
>     + glib-gettextize --force --copy
>     Copying file po/Makefile.in.in
>
>     Please add the files
>       codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4
>       progtest.m4
>     from the /home/seb/jhbuild/share/aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory
>     or directly to your aclocal.m4 file.
>     You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from
>     ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.
>
> Is it normal? We don't want to add those m4 files on git. For
> autoconf-archive macros, we have chosen the preferred option, i.e.
> adding a dependency on autoconf-archive instead of copying the macros.
> So for gettext we want to do the same.
>
> 'make distcheck' passes, but the listed macros above are not distributed
> in tarballs. --install has been added to the ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS.
>
> Do you know what's wrong? Do we need to do something about it?

Use upstream gettext instead old/unmaintained glib-gettext, patch here [1]

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754037
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