intltool doesn't work with upstream gettext

[Javier Jardón]

Seems that intltool doesn't copy enough stuff to satisfy upstream gettext.

I have this in my autogen.sh:

AUTOPOINT='intltoolize --automake --copy' autoreconf --force --install --verbose

but I get this:

configure.ac:49: required file `./config.rpath' not found

[dobey (dobey)]

I am pretty sure that error has nothing to do with your use of intltool, but perhaps rather with the fact that you might be using libtool.

[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

Hello Rodney,

config.rpath is a file created by autopoint, a gettext utility.
I have to override the AUTOPOINT var because I get this error if not:

config.status: error: po/Makefile.in.in was not created by intltoolize.

I have a temporary solution with this code:

autopoint --force &&
AUTOPOINT='intltoolize --automake --copy' autoreconf --force --install

so all the required files are created with autopoint and then autoreconf call intltoolize instead autopoint to avoid conflicts with the po/Makefile.in.in file

[dobey (dobey)]

Javier. Just remove the AM_GNU_GETTEXT macro calls from your configure.ac file. You should only have the IT_PROG_INTLTOOL macro in it. Then you can do "autorconf --force --install && intltoolize --automake --copy" if you don't want to use gnome-common (for autogen.sh) in your project as well.