There's something wrong with the new version check. It doesn't work on my system.
When I apply the following: diff --git a/acinclude.m4 b/acinclude.m4 index 14f746effa..c9a3334772 100644 --- a/acinclude.m4 +++ b/acinclude.m4 @@ -360,10 +360,13 @@ AC_DEFUN([PSPP_CHECK_XGETTEXT], [AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether gettext is sufficiently recent], [pspp_cv_progrecent_xgettext], [pspp_cv_progrecent_xgettext=maybe + echo "$ac_cv_prog_XGETTEXT --version" ver=`$ac_cv_prog_XGETTEXT --version | sed -n -e '/xgettext/s/[[^0-9]]*\([[0-9\.]][[0-9\.]]*\).*/\1/p'` + echo "ver=$ver" major=${ver%%.[[0-9]][[0-9]]*} majmin=${ver%.[[0-9]][[0-9]]*} minor=${majmin##[0-9]*.} + echo "major=$major majmin=$majmin minor=$minor" if test "$major" -lt 0; then pspp_cv_progrecent_xgettext=no; elif test "$minor" -lt 20; then I get this output from configure (and then it fails): checking whether gettext is sufficiently recent... xgettext --version ver=0.21 major=0 majmin=0 minor=0 I'm using Debian testing. On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 5:57 AM John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote: > > So far as I can make out from the information there, it stopped working > with this commit: > > > commit 210739b77d0f943b5073375fe39d1f09723adb2c (HEAD -> master, > savannah/master) > Author: John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> > Date: Sat Jan 2 10:57:23 2021 +0100 > > Recent gettext to version 0.20 or later > > > I'm suprised that Debian sid, and Debian testing stopped working, because > as recently discussed both those distributions contain recent gettext > versions. > > Can you perhaps look into the situation to find out what is going wrong? > > > J' > > > > > 41;344;0cOn Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 01:22:12PM +0100, Friedrich Beckmann wrote: > the latest commits result in failing builds: > > http://caeis.etech.fh-augsburg.de:8010/#/ > > Fritz >