guile-1.8.1 tarball missing config.rpath (was: 'make check' for autogen-5.8.7 fails - possibly an autoconf bug)

guile-1.8.1 tarball missing config.rpath (was: 'make check' for autogen-5.8.7 fails - possibly an autoconf bug)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello bug-guile readers,

The tarball at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.1.tar.gz
has a configure script that uses the script config.rpath.  But
this script is not shipped with the tarball.  This can cause
"interesting" and weird bugs, if I remember correctly, on some
systems at least.  It shows up as a warning during configure.

A likely cause for the omission is that gettextize is needed to
install this for you.  Also I think when you update the package
to use Automake 1.10, a gettext-induced check for the presence
of the config.rpath file will be enabled (so this doesn't happen
again).

Cheers,
Ralf

Re: guile-1.8.1 tarball missing config.rpath

[Neil Jerram]

Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> writes:

> Hello bug-guile readers,
>
> The tarball at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.1.tar.gz
> has a configure script that uses the script config.rpath.  But
> this script is not shipped with the tarball.  This can cause
> "interesting" and weird bugs, if I remember correctly, on some
> systems at least.  It shows up as a warning during configure.
>
> A likely cause for the omission is that gettextize is needed to
> install this for you.  Also I think when you update the package
> to use Automake 1.10, a gettext-induced check for the presence
> of the config.rpath file will be enabled (so this doesn't happen
> again).

Forgive my slowness (both in responding and in understanding), but I'm
not sure I'm clear about what possible fixes you're suggesting.  The
two possibilities that I deduce from the above are:

1. Add config.rpath to Guile CVS and EXTRA_DIST in the top level
   Makefile, so that it's always, unconditionally present.

2. Make sure that whoever prepares the release has Automake 1.10; then
   automake --add-missing will install config.rpath as a side effect
   of the AM_GNU_GETTEXT declaration in configure.in.

Is that right?  Are there any other possibilities?

Regards,
     Neil



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Re: guile-1.8.1 tarball missing config.rpath

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Neil,

* Neil Jerram wrote on Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 03:19:43PM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > The tarball at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.1.tar.gz
> > has a configure script that uses the script config.rpath.  But
> > this script is not shipped with the tarball.  This can cause
> > "interesting" and weird bugs, if I remember correctly, on some
> > systems at least.  It shows up as a warning during configure.
> >
> > A likely cause for the omission is that gettextize is needed to
> > install this for you.  Also I think when you update the package
> > to use Automake 1.10, a gettext-induced check for the presence
> > of the config.rpath file will be enabled (so this doesn't happen
> > again).
> 
> Forgive my slowness (both in responding and in understanding), but I'm
> not sure I'm clear about what possible fixes you're suggesting.  The
> two possibilities that I deduce from the above are:
> 
> 1. Add config.rpath to Guile CVS and EXTRA_DIST in the top level
>    Makefile, so that it's always, unconditionally present.

This would be a fine choice.

> 2. Make sure that whoever prepares the release has Automake 1.10; then
>    automake --add-missing will install config.rpath as a side effect
>    of the AM_GNU_GETTEXT declaration in configure.in.

Not quite right.  automake will complain, but it will take gettextize or
autopoint to actually install config.rpath.  You could also just copy it
from /usr/share/gettext (or whereever gettext happens to be installed on
your system).  Thanks for reporting this though, the error message given
by automake is not quite right.  I'll propose a fix.

> Is that right?  Are there any other possibilities?

3. After you've once run gettextize on your package (which puts the
   config.rpath file in your package, no?), and then automake afterwards
   (the same version as you're using all the time, doesn't need to be
   1.10), the config.rpath file should be picked up automatically by the
   next 'make dist'.

Cheers,
Ralf

Re: guile-1.8.1 tarball missing config.rpath

[Kevin Ryde]

Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> writes:
>
> * Neil Jerram wrote on Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 03:19:43PM CET:
>
>> 2. Make sure that whoever prepares the release has Automake 1.10; then
>>    automake --add-missing will install config.rpath as a side effect
>>    of the AM_GNU_GETTEXT declaration in configure.in.

I made that change, by bumping the required version in the top-level
Makefile.am.

> Not quite right.  automake will complain, but it will take gettextize or
> autopoint to actually install config.rpath.

Every time I've run gettextize it's modified or added more stuff than
I wanted it to :-(.  In particular for guile we don't have translated
messages internally yet, hence no po directory.

> You could also just copy it
> from /usr/share/gettext (or whereever gettext happens to be installed on
> your system).

Yes, that'd be the go.


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