intltool-update complains about filename containing newline

[Danek Duvall]

When using intltool-update --pot in a source tree which doesn't have configure.in, this message is issued:

    Unsuccessful open on filename containing newline at /usr/bin/intltool-update line 1071.

intltool-update looks to attempt to read "../configure.in<newline>".

Although it seems to be harmless, it's confusing to have the message in source tree build log.

[Danek Duvall (danek-duvall)]

Looks like in CONF_Handle_Open(), most (but not all) assignments to $conf_in are adding a newline to the filename, which seems strange. That seems like something that should be added to a message, not a filename.

Still, a quick and dirty solution would be to chomp() $conf_in before attempting to use it, if for some reason it needs to have the trailing newline.

[Danek Duvall (danek-duvall)]

I'm seeing this with an old version -- 0.40.6 -- but the source for 0.50.2 appears to have the same issue.