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configure.ac or configure.in - this is the source from which
autoconf
generates the configure script.
This is done by a set of lines like these:
PACKAGE=gettext VERSION=0.19.7 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(PACKAGE, "$PACKAGE") AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(VERSION, "$VERSION") AC_SUBST(PACKAGE) AC_SUBST(VERSION)
or, if you are using GNU automake
, by a line like this:
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(gettext, 0.19.7)
Of course, you replace ‘gettext’ with the name of your package,
and ‘0.19.7’ by its version numbers, exactly as they
should appear in the packaged tar
file name of your distribution
(gettext-0.19.7.tar.gz, here).
Here is the main m4
macro for triggering internationalization
support. Just add this line to configure.ac:
AM_GNU_GETTEXT
This call is purposely simple, even if it generates a lot of configure time checking and actions.
If you have suppressed the intl/ subdirectory by calling
gettextize
without ‘--intl’ option, this call should read
AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])
The AC_OUTPUT
directive, at the end of your configure.ac
file, needs to be modified in two ways:
AC_OUTPUT([existing configuration files intl/Makefile po/Makefile.in], [existing additional actions])
The modification to the first argument to AC_OUTPUT
asks
for substitution in the intl/ and po/ directories.
Note the ‘.in’ suffix used for po/ only. This is because
the distributed file is really po/Makefile.in.in.
If you have suppressed the intl/ subdirectory by calling
gettextize
without ‘--intl’ option, then you don’t need to
add intl/Makefile
to the AC_OUTPUT
line.
If, after doing the recommended modifications, a command like ‘aclocal -I m4’ or ‘autoconf’ or ‘autoreconf’ fails with a trace similar to this:
configure.ac:44: warning: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE was called before AC_GNU_SOURCE ../../lib/autoconf/specific.m4:335: AC_GNU_SOURCE is expanded from... m4/lock.m4:224: gl_LOCK is expanded from... m4/gettext.m4:571: gt_INTL_SUBDIR_CORE is expanded from... m4/gettext.m4:472: AM_INTL_SUBDIR is expanded from... m4/gettext.m4:347: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is expanded from... configure.ac:44: the top level configure.ac:44: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE was called before AC_GNU_SOURCE
you need to add an explicit invocation of ‘AC_GNU_SOURCE’ in the configure.ac file - after ‘AC_PROG_CC’ but before ‘AM_GNU_GETTEXT’, most likely very close to the ‘AC_PROG_CC’ invocation. This is necessary because of ordering restrictions imposed by GNU autoconf.
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