I applied this, which fixed it:
From: Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu>
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2021 16:08:09 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] configure: Ensure the version always has 3 parts in
PSPP_CHECK_XGETTEXT.
Makes configure succeed on Debian for me, where "xgettext --version" prints
0.21 as the version.
---
acinclude.m4 | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/acinclude.m4 b/acinclude.m4
index 750a87efb1..c657b46e1f 100644
--- a/acinclude.m4
+++ b/acinclude.m4
@@ -362,6 +362,10 @@ AC_DEFUN([PSPP_CHECK_XGETTEXT],
[pspp_cv_progrecent_xgettext],
[pspp_cv_progrecent_xgettext=maybe
ver=`$ac_cv_prog_XGETTEXT --version | sed -n -e
'/xgettext/s/[[^0-9]]*\([[0-9\.]][[0-9\.]]*\).*/\1/p'`
+ case $ver in # (
+ *.*.*) ;; # (
+ *.*) ver="$ver.0" ;;
+ esac
majmin=`echo $ver | sed -e 's/\.[[0-9]]*$//'`
major=`echo $majmin | sed -e 's/\.[[0-9]]*$//'`
minor=`echo $majmin | sed -e 's/^[[0-9]]*\.//'`
--
2.29.2
On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 4:02 PM Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> It didn't make any difference for me. On my system, with Debian's
> gettext 0.21-3, xgettext --version prints:
>
> xgettext (GNU gettext-tools) 0.21
> Copyright (C) 1995-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> Written by Ulrich Drepper.
>
> Writing a short shell script based on what appears in configure, I get:
>
> ac_cv_prog_XGETTEXT=xgettext
> ver=`$ac_cv_prog_XGETTEXT --version | sed -n -e '/xgettext/s/[^0-9]*\([0-9\
> .][0-9\.]*\).*/\1/p'`
> majmin=`echo $ver | sed -e 's/\.[0-9]*$//'`
> major=`echo $majmin | sed -e 's/\.[0-9]*$//'`
> minor=`echo $majmin | sed -e 's/^[0-9]*\.//'`
> echo "ver=$ver majmin=$majmin major=$major minor=$minor"
>
> which prints:
>
> ver=0.21 majmin=0 major=0 minor=0
>
> After majmin strips the .21 off, there are no dots left for major or
> minor to strip anything else off, so of course major and minor both
> end up 0.
>
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 11:23 PM John Darrington
> <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
> >
> > That is strange. It works for me. I will rewrite it using
> > sed calls instead of parameter expansion and see if that's
> > any better for people.
> >
> > J'
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 03:22:55PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > There's something wrong with the new version check. It doesn't work on
> > my system.
> >
> > When I apply the following:
> >
> > diff --git a/acinclude.m4 b/acinclude.m4
> > index 14f746effa..c9a3334772 100644
> > --- a/acinclude.m4
> > +++ b/acinclude.m4
> > @@ -360,10 +360,13 @@ AC_DEFUN([PSPP_CHECK_XGETTEXT],
> > [AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether gettext is sufficiently recent],
> > [pspp_cv_progrecent_xgettext],
> > [pspp_cv_progrecent_xgettext=maybe
> > + echo "$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
> > >
