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  1. Bug #1311895
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Comment 1 for bug 1311895

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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote :

Confirmed: I cloned a new coreutils git image, and ran bootstrap, on 14.04:

(...)
./bootstrap: autopoint --force
sh: 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: not found
/usr/bin/m4:configure.ac:451: cannot open `m4/cu-progs.m4': No such file or directory
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
autopoint: *** Missing version: please specify in configure.ac through a line 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(x.yy.zz)' the gettext version the package is using
autopoint: *** Stop.

Interestingly, my usual coreutils git image survives a bootstrap. I am guessing it is because it was originally cloned & bootstrapped before the problem appeared in gettext.

This issue was originally reported on upstream coreutils; Pádraig's work pointed to the issue (and thank you for opening this bug, BTW).

Probably also affects Debian, except Jessie and Sid (already on 0.18.3.2).

for reference: this is Coreutils upstream bug 16530
coreutils-bugs thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2014-04/msg00102.html