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autopoint
Programautopoint [option]...
The autopoint
program copies standard gettext infrastructure files
into a source package. It extracts from a macro call of the form
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(version)
, found in the package’s
configure.in or configure.ac file, the gettext version
used by the package, and copies the infrastructure files belonging to
this version into the package.
To extract the latest available infrastructure which satisfies a version
requirement, then you can use the form
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION(version)
instead. For
example, if gettext 0.19.7 is installed on your system
and 0.19.1
is requested, then the infrastructure files of version
0.19.7 will be copied into a source package.
Force overwriting of files that already exist.
Print modifications but don’t perform them. All file copying actions that
autopoint
would normally execute are inhibited and instead only
listed on standard output.
Display this help and exit.
Output version information and exit.
autopoint
supports the GNU gettext
versions from 0.10.35
to the current one, 0.19.7. In order to apply
autopoint
to a package using a gettext
version newer than
0.19.7, you need to install this same version of GNU
gettext
at least.
In packages using GNU automake
, an invocation of autopoint
should be followed by invocations of aclocal
and then autoconf
and autoheader
. The reason is that autopoint
installs some
autoconf macro files, which are used by aclocal
to create
aclocal.m4, and the latter is used by autoconf
to create the
package’s configure script and by autoheader
to create the
package’s config.h.in include file template.
The name ‘autopoint’ is an abbreviation of ‘auto-po-intl-m4’; the tool copies or updates mostly files in the po, intl, m4 directories.
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