Re: msgctxt conversion for 2.26 ?

[Rodney Dawes <dobey pwns gmail com>]

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 08:16 +0100, Claude Paroz wrote:
> Le lundi 27 octobre 2008 à 17:11 -0400, Daniel Macks a écrit :
> > Can configure.{ac,in} do a version-check for the new gettext when
> > packages start requiring it? I don't know enough of gettext's autoconf
> > macros so I don't know if this is an actual feature-request or just a
> > friendly reminder:) But anyway, gtkhtml-3.24.0 already uses msgctxt
> > but there's no indication that a new gettext version is required. On
> > my machine with gettext-0.14.5, I got a cryptic build crash rather
> > than a clear ./configure "checking for gettext>=FOO... no" failure.
> 
> I don't know if intltool checks for a specific gettext version. CC'd to
> dobey as he should be able to answer.

It just checks for gnu gettext. All it calls is AC_PATH_PROG(PROGRAM,
program) to find the tools, and then calls some of the commands with
--version to check that they are actually GNU tools. If your error is
"checking for gettext >= FOO... no" then I would guess the app itself
is checking for the tools separately, and that is failing. The
intltool.m4 doesn't have "FOO" in it anywhere.

-- Rodney