>To wit, running "autoreconf -vif" invokes the "autopoint" tool supplied by installed gettext, which copies over .m4 files from installed gettext, but [problems] > [...] > 6. Something else? Stop using gnulib?
Maybe make a shell no-op shell script in “insert-directory-name-here/autopoint” and add “insert-directory-name-here” to path, so no replacing .m4 happens. Best regards, Maxime Devos