Re: CVS chaos

["Andrew S . Halper" <ashalper acm org>]

On 2002.01.30 21:17 Lars Clausen wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Andrew S. wrote:
>
> > I replaced xml-i18n-tools (0.10?, I think it was Cyrille's tarball
> > snapshot) with intltool 0.12, but autogen.sh terminates with:
> >
> > /configure: line 5338: syntax error near unexpected token
> > `AC_PROG_INTLTOOL(0.12)'
> > /configure: line 5338: `AC_PROG_INTLTOOL(0.12) '
> >
> > Now type 'make' to compile dia.
> >
> > Is there a syntax error in the Autoconf macro, or should I upgrade
> > something?
>
> Have you tried running aclocal?  That has removed such problems for me
> before.  I am using intltool 0.12 with the current CVS with success.

Yep, I tried that, in both the dia and intltool directories.  No luck there.  I
finally wound up installing the CVS version of intltool and doing:

cp intltool.m4 `aclocal --print-ac-dir`

and that solved it.  Little to no understanding why though.

Thanks,
Andy