On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 10:33:31AM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen via Mutt-dev wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 12:44:21PM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:this is a completely normal thing to require for a build from a git. why are these .m4 files even in the repository?The only workaround I could find was running autoreconf with '-if' to force install.
Hi Oswald,Historically they have been, for far longer than when I came on the project. The prepare script seems not to have been changed for 19 years. I haven't seen this problem since I've been maintaining mutt, so I'm a bit confused.
When I updated to a vanilla gettext configuration with gettextize five years ago, I committed the changes, as I thought the manual suggested:
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Distributed-Development.htmlHowever, if it I did something wrong, then let's talk about what needs to be changed.
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