Found the problem. The automake version was 1.4, which caused a few things not to work. The syntax of some macros changed in later versions of automake.
In 'configure.in', some languages were not included in ALL_LINGUAS that are in 'po/', which caused a problem with the 1.4 automake. More specifically, I had: -ALL_LINGUAS="cs de el eo es et fr gl hr id it ja ko nl no pl pt_BR ru sl sv" +ALL_LINGUAS="bg ca cs da de el eo es et fr gl hr id it ja ko nb nl no pl pt_BR ru sl sv tr" GNU Autoconf recommends renaming configure.in to configure.ac. The only benefit is a more meaningful name. Shall we? 'GNU which' has a 'bootstrap' [1] script that serves the same function as our autogen.sh, but I think is better written (actually that's how I realized that I had an old automake). Can we borrow it? I could make the necessary renamings, modifications, and testings. The grep nightly build page [2] is back up and operational. [1] http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/which/which/bootstrap [2] http://www.dal-acm.ca/~taa/grep/ Cheers, TAA ----------------------------------------------------- Tony Abou-Assaleh Lecturer, Computer Science Department Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada, L2S 3A1 Office: MC J215 Tel: +1(905)688-5550 ext. 5243 Fax: +1(905)688-3255 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.cosc.brocku.ca/~taa/ ----------------------[THE END]---------------------- On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Charles Levert wrote: > * On Thursday 2005-11-10 at 17:37:57 -0400, Tony Abou-Assaleh wrote: > > Using the latest debian, there are several things broken in the cvs when > > trying to create the nightly snapshots. > > > > I fixed some using one-liner patches, and still working on others. > > > > I am not sure why some things that used to work are broken now. But as I > > read the docs for the different tools, it's becoming more of: I don't know > > why broken things used to work in the past. > > Can you be more specific about which tools > are causing the problem? So many tools are > involved... > > > > Over all, it should be a good experience to getting to know these tools. > > Stay tuned for updates :O) > > I am done some work towards cleaning up > Makefile.cvs and adding a smart cvs-dist target > to Makefile.am. Stay tuned as well. > > > > In the mean time, let me know if 'make dist' works on your system with a > > freshly checked out cvs tree. > > It works for me, but then again my system is > not a latest one: > > GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release > automake (GNU automake) 1.7.8 > autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.57 > GNU Make version 3.79.1 > xgettext (GNU gettext-tools) 0.12.1 > GNU find version 4.1.7 > tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 > gzip 1.3.3 > bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor. Version 1.0.2, 30-Dec-2001. > > Hmmm, there's that capital/lowercase name issue > all over the place again. :-) > >
