Re: New version of gettext is causing fireperf to fail to build

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

Hello Adolf,

Yay, a breaking change in Gettext. This might hurt us a lot then…

The “autogen.sh” script is just a script that I wrote which takes care of setting up autoconf/automake and intltool.

What happens when you add autopoint to that script? Or run autopoint before running the script?

-Michael

> On 13 May 2025, at 15:12, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I am running some package updates and one of those was gettext from 0.24 to 0.25
> 
> gettext built without any problems but when the build got to fireperf it failed. Restoring gettext to the 0.24 version caused fireperf to build without any problems.
> 
> The fireperf build log content was:-
> 
> May 13 13:19:31: Building fireperf make: Entering directory '/home/build/sandbox/ipfire-2.x/lfs'
> make: Nothing to be done for 'download'.
> make: Leaving directory '/home/build/sandbox/ipfire-2.x/lfs'
> make: Entering directory '/usr/src/lfs'
> fireperf-0.2.0.tar.gz checksum OK
> ====================================== Installing fireperf-0.2.0 ...
> Install started; saving file list to /usr/src/lsalr ...
> fireperf-0.2.0/
> fireperf-0.2.0/.gitignore
> fireperf-0.2.0/Makefile.am
> fireperf-0.2.0/autogen.sh
> fireperf-0.2.0/configure.ac
> fireperf-0.2.0/debian/
> fireperf-0.2.0/debian/build.sh
> fireperf-0.2.0/debian/changelog
> fireperf-0.2.0/debian/compat
> fireperf-0.2.0/debian/control
> fireperf-0.2.0/debian/copyright
> fireperf-0.2.0/debian/rules
> fireperf-0.2.0/m4/
> fireperf-0.2.0/m4/.gitignore
> fireperf-0.2.0/man/
> fireperf-0.2.0/man/.gitignore
> fireperf-0.2.0/man/asciidoc.conf
> fireperf-0.2.0/man/fireperf.txt
> fireperf-0.2.0/po/
> fireperf-0.2.0/po/.gitignore
> fireperf-0.2.0/po/POTFILES.in
> fireperf-0.2.0/src/
> fireperf-0.2.0/src/.gitignore
> fireperf-0.2.0/src/client.c
> fireperf-0.2.0/src/client.h
> fireperf-0.2.0/src/logging.c
> fireperf-0.2.0/src/logging.h
> fireperf-0.2.0/src/main.c
> fireperf-0.2.0/src/main.h
> fireperf-0.2.0/src/random.c
> fireperf-0.2.0/src/random.h
> fireperf-0.2.0/src/server.c
> fireperf-0.2.0/src/server.h
> fireperf-0.2.0/src/util.c
> fireperf-0.2.0/src/util.h
> cd /usr/src/fireperf-0.2.0 && ./autogen.sh
> libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, 'build-aux'.
> libtoolize: linking file 'build-aux/ltmain.sh'
> libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'.
> libtoolize: linking file 'm4/libtool.m4'
> libtoolize: linking file 'm4/ltoptions.m4'
> libtoolize: linking file 'm4/ltsugar.m4'
> libtoolize: linking file 'm4/ltversion.m4'
> libtoolize: linking file 'm4/lt~obsolete.m4'
> You should update your 'aclocal.m4' by running aclocal.
> intltoolize: 'po/Makefile.in.in' exists: use '--force' to overwrite
> configure.ac:21: warning: The macro 'AC_PROG_CC_STDC' is obsolete.
> configure.ac:21: You should run autoupdate.
> ./lib/autoconf/c.m4:1669: AC_PROG_CC_STDC is expanded from...
> configure.ac:21: the top level
> configure.ac:32: warning: AM_NLS is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
> m4/intltool.m4:27: IT_PROG_INTLTOOL is expanded from...
> configure.ac:32: the top level
> configure:13968: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_NLS
>      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>      See the Autoconf documentation.
> autoreconf: error: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
> make: *** [fireperf:84: /usr/src/log/fireperf-0.2.0] Error 1
> make: Leaving directory '/usr/src/lfs'
> 
> 
> I found the following in the 0.24.1 version changelog
> 
> * Bug fixes:
>  - Fix bad interactions between autoreconf and autopoint.
> 
> and the following bug in gettext "bug #67090: autotools issue with gettext-tools 0.24.1"
> 
> with the conclusion
> 
> I have now added a piece of documentation that clarifies how to obtain the autoconf macros, and that autoreconf is discouraged for this purpose:
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=commitdiff;h=43f5ac51ddeb1b70a7b9647cb45cfeee67fd8c41
> 
> fireperf is using autogen.sh to create the configure file and it runs autoreconf.
> 
> It looks like with the latest gettext version autoreconf should be replaced with some other method but I have no idea what?
> 
> Regards,
> Adolf.
>