Re: [msmtp-users] AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION

[Martin Lambers <marlam@...23...>]

Hi!

On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 05:07:21 -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> On a midlife FreeBSD 8.x I get:
> 
> autoreconf-2.69: configure.ac: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used, but not
> AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION

Yes, I never saw the usefulness of AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION.
See
<https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/AM_005fGNU_005fGETTEXT_005fVERSION.html>
and
<https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Files-under-Version-Control.html#Files-under-Version-Control>
You always need required version installed anyway.

Lately, several distributions have updated their gettext version to
0.19.x, so msmtp switched to this version, too, to avoid the same
conflict problem on current systems.

> Global:CHECK_MACRO_VERSION = test "$(GETTEXT_MACRO_VERSION)" = "0.18"
> || { echo "*** error: gettext infrastructure mismatch: using a
> Makefile.in.in from gettext version $(GETTEXT_MACRO_VERSION) but the
> autoconf macros are from gettext version 0.18" 1>&2;  exit 1;  }

You can still use 0.18 if you like. Just edit GETTEXT_MACRO_VERSION in
po/Makefile.in.in. The differences seem to be irrelevant for msmtp.

Martin