[aur-general] gettext and intl directory

[Doug Newgard]

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> From: chirantan.ekbote at gmail.com
> To: aur-general at archlinux.org
> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 21:53:59 -0700
> Subject: [aur-general] gettext and intl directory
>
> Hello,
>
> I am the maintainer for the git version of Midnight Commander[1]. Since
> the release of gettext 0.18.3, building midnight commander fails with
> the following error:
>
> configure.ac:497: error: required file 'intl/Makefile.in' not found
> Makefile.am:4: error: required directory ./intl does not exist
> lib/Makefile.am: installing 'config/depcomp'
> parallel-tests: installing 'config/test-driver'
> automake failed to generate Makefile.in
>
>
> It seems that gettext is not creating the intl directory, which is
> required by mc. If I downgrade to gettext 0.18.2.1 and try to build,
> then it seems that the intl directory is properly created and the build
> succeeds. My question is: since this change of behavior happens with the
> latest version, is this a bug with gettext or with midnight commander?
>
> I am not very familiar with gettext and I haven't been able to find any
> relevant documentation on the internets so any insight would be very
> useful.
>
> Thank you,
> Chirantan
>
> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mc-git/

Looks like a bug in gettext, already fixed upstream:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gettext.git/commit/?id=c0d3ce9120fc24d2b78af59c5760ce1ec0dc0ad4