RE: autogen.sh removes files from intl

["BASS, Ned" <nbass shl com>]

I have gettext 0.10.35.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Henstridge [mailto:james@daa.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 6:36 PM
> To: BASS, Ned
> Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: autogen.sh removes files from intl
> 
> 
> 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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