Re: gnome-common?? gnome-autogen.sh??

[Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>]

Hi,

Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au> writes:
[snip] 
>> Is 'autogen.sh' relevant anymore?  Most of the functionality is now
>> in 'autoreconf' from autoconf 2.5x.
>
> If it's only "most", then autogen.sh is still required.
>
> The things I know of that are missing/different are that autoreconf does
> not know about intltoolize 

OK.  Maybe that should be recommended as the autogen.sh

  #!/bin/sh
  autoreconf -fvis
  intltoolize

Would be even nicer if the gettext package provided a way to declare
extraction rules in configure.ac (assuming xgettext has enough
flexibility to subsume intltool-extract).

> and it only checks for AM_GNU_GETTEXT in configure.in (not
> AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT, which is the recommended one for GNOME usage).
> So it basically does internationisation differently from the way we
> do.

AFAI remember, AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT is used to avoid the
included-gettext problem.  gettext-0.11.5 solves this with something
like 

  AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])

Is there anything else about AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT?  (Hmm... there may
be some issues with Solaris gettext interporability.)

- Hari
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Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath cs umn edu