gettext's installation path and aclocal19's search path

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Vasil Dimov <vd at freebsd.org> (Mon, 5 Jun 2006 12:27:04 +0300):

> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that devel/gettext is installing its .m4 files in
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/
> 
> % pkg_info -L /var/db/pkg/gettext-0.14.5_2/ |grep gettext.m4
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/gettext.m4
> 
> while aclocal19 (installed by devel/automake19) is searching for
> .m4 files in /usr/local/share/aclocal19/
> 
> % aclocal19 --print-ac-dir
> /usr/local/share/aclocal19
> 
> This is causing errors (undefined macro) with software using
> AM_GNU_GETTEXT and AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION in its configure.in file.
> 
> So far I have found the following workaround:
> (beware! it may hurt your eyes)
> 
> pre-configure:
> 	cd ${WRKSRC} && \
> 	${SETENV} ${AUTOTOOLS_ENV} \
> 	ACLOCAL="${ACLOCAL} -I ${LOCALBASE}/share/aclocal" \
> 	${AUTORECONF} -f -i -s
> 
> The question is:
> Is this something local to the package or something in gettext/automake
> installation/configuration paths?

This is a problem in the port. I filed a PR and assigned it to Ade at
the weekend. The fix is to create /usr/local/share/aclocal19/dirlist
with one directory per line. I just added /usr/local/share/aclocal/ and
it works just fine.

I was not able to update the autotools stuff in LAME-CVS to the most
recent versions we have in the ports collection in the first place.
After fixing the problem with aclocal it was no problem anymore to get
a working configure script.

Summary: Your workaround looks good to me, but should be removed as
soon as the autotools ports are fixed.

Bye,
Alexander.

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