Re: patch to remove --disable-nls option from glib-gettext.m4

[Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>]

Hi,

James Henstridge <james daa com au> writes:
> Owen Taylor wrote:
>>>Am I supposed to increase the serial number found at the beginning
>>> of the m4 macro?
>>
>>We haven't done so previously... honestly, I don't know what function
>>the serial has, and there doesn't seem to be any mention in the
>>autoconf docs.
>>
> The serial number is an aclocal (automake) thing.  Apparently if it
> finds two copies of the macro, the one with the higher serial
> wins. Whether this works or not is a different matter.

IIRC, the serial number wasn't meant for 'aclocal', but for a separate
(non-existant) 'acinstall' program that managed stuff in
$(sharedir)/aclocal.  If foo.m4 (version 6) is already installed, and
if I try to install foo.m4 (version 4), the version 6 file is kept
unchanged (remniscent of Windows DLL installation).

So, it's not a bug, it's an unimplemented feature.

- Hari
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