Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In bison/bootstrap I can see the following code:
>
> echo "$0: patching m4/gettext.m4 so that AM_INTL_SUBDIR is empty ..."
> sed '
> /^AC_DEFUN(\[AM_INTL_SUBDIR],/,/^]/c\
> AC_DEFUN([AM_INTL_SUBDIR], [])
> ' m4/gettext.m4 >m4/gettext_gl.m4 || exit
>
> Why is this necessary? bison does not include the intl directory, so this
> macro is unused. With 'aclocal' from version 1.8 or newer, unused macros
> don't drag in other macros any more. Any other problem I'm overlooking?
No, it's just old cruft that predates 1.8. Thanks for reporting it.
I installed this:
2005-09-08 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* bootstrap: Remove AM_INTL_SUBDIR hack; no longer needed with
recent versions of Automake. Reported by Bruno Haible.
Index: bootstrap
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/bison/bison/bootstrap,v
retrieving revision 1.24
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -p -u -r1.24 -r1.25
--- bootstrap 25 Aug 2005 18:49:57 -0000 1.24
+++ bootstrap 8 Sep 2005 18:01:54 -0000 1.25
@@ -154,12 +154,6 @@ for gnulib_file in $gnulib_files; do
cp -p $GNULIB_SRCDIR/$gnulib_file $dest || exit
done
-echo "$0: patching m4/gettext.m4 so that AM_INTL_SUBDIR is empty ..."
-sed '
- /^AC_DEFUN(\[AM_INTL_SUBDIR],/,/^]/c\
- AC_DEFUN([AM_INTL_SUBDIR], [])
-' m4/gettext.m4 >m4/gettext_gl.m4 || exit
-
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