Re: autogen.sh removes files from intl

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

What version of gettext do you have installed on your system.  You should
have 0.10.35.  If you don't, download it from alpha.gnu.org or one of its
mirrors.

James Henstridge.

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On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, BASS, Ned wrote:

> Whenever I compile gnome-libs from CVS, the autogen.sh script seems to
> obliterate the contents of the gnome-libs/intl direcotry.  For example,
> while the configure script is running, I get the following errors:
> 
> [snip]
> sed: can't read ./intl/po2tbl.sed.in: No such file or directory
> [snip]
> sed: can't read ./intl/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
> [snip]
> linking ./intl/libgettext.h to intl/libintl.h
> configure: error: ./intl/libgettext.h: File not found
> [snip]
> 
> The contents of gnome-libs/intl ends up containing:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   2 ned      users        1024 Feb  9 19:04 ./
> drwxr-xr-x  25 ned      users        2048 Feb  9 19:04 ../
> -rw-r--r--   1 ned      users           0 Feb  9 19:04 Makefile
> -rw-r--r--   1 ned      users          41 Feb  9 19:03 VERSION
> -rw-r--r--   1 ned      users           0 Feb  9 19:04 po2tbl.sed
> 
> I have the following versions:
> 
> Slackware 3.4
> Linux 2.0.36
> autoconf 2.13
> automake 1.4
> libtool 1.2d
> 
> To get around this, I keep a good copy of the intl module around.  Then
> after running autogen.sh in gnome-libs, I copy the contents of the _good_
> intl directory into gnome-libs/intl, and then I run the configure script
> again.  After that, compilation works fine.  Is there a better way to fix
> this?
> 
> 
> 
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