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

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

Hello Adolf,

There is not much to do except applying all those patches to the individual Git repositories.

-Michael

> On 14 May 2025, at 16:47, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On 14/05/2025 17:09, Michael Tremer wrote:
>> Thank you.
>> We should upstream the changes into the individual repositories.
> 
> I will look at doing that.
> 
> Regards,
> Adolf.
> 
>> I have merged your patches for now to get the build going again.
>> -Michael
>>> On 14 May 2025, at 10:57, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Michael,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Also had to do the same with libloc.
>>> 
>>> Everything else after that has built successfully.
>>> 
>>> Will do a full clean build now and then submit patches for the changes.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Adolf.
>>> 
>>> On 14/05/2025 10:19, Adolf Belka wrote:
>>>> Hi Michael,
>>>> Success!!
>>>> On 13/05/2025 20:57, Adolf Belka wrote:
>>>>> Hi Michael,
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 13/05/2025 16:24, Michael Tremer wrote:
>>>>>> 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?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I added autopoint into the LFS just before the autogen.sh line.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It failed to build with the following log output:-
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> May 13 18:16:55: 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 && autopoint
>>>>> autopoint: *** Missing version: please specify in configure.ac through a line 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(x.yy.zz)' the gettext version the package is using
>>>>> autopoint: *** Stop.
>>>>> make: *** [fireperf:84: /usr/src/log/fireperf-0.2.0] Error 1
>>>>> make: Leaving directory '/usr/src/lfs'
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> So I created a patch to add AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(0.25) into the configure.ac
>>>>> 
>>>>> This then failed with the following log output:-
>>>>> 
>>>>> autopoint: *** AM_GNU_GETTEXT without 'external' argument is no longer supported in version 0.25
>>>>> 
>>>>> So I added AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) into configure.ac and tried again with log output
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> May 13 18:48:57: Building fireperf make: Entering directory '/home/ahb/sandbox/ipfire-2.x/lfs'
>>>>> make: Nothing to be done for 'download'.
>>>>> make: Leaving directory '/home/ahb/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 && patch -Np1 -i /usr/src/src/patches/fireperf-0.2.0_add_gettext_version_to_configure.ac.patch
>>>>> patching file configure.ac
>>>>> cd /usr/src/fireperf-0.2.0 && autopoint
>>>>> Copying file ABOUT-NLS
>>>>> Creating directory build-aux
>>>>> Copying file build-aux/config.rpath
>>>>> Copying file m4/build-to-host.m4
>>>>> Copying file m4/gettext.m4
>>>>> Copying file m4/host-cpu-c-abi.m4
>>>>> Copying file m4/iconv.m4
>>>>> Copying file m4/intlmacosx.m4
>>>>> Copying file m4/lib-ld.m4
>>>>> Copying file m4/lib-link.m4
>>>>> Copying file m4/lib-prefix.m4
>>>>> Copying file m4/nls.m4
>>>>> Copying file m4/po.m4
>>>>> Copying file m4/progtest.m4
>>>>> Copying file po/Makefile.in.in
>>>>> Copying file po/Makevars.template
>>>>> Copying file po/Rules-quot
>>>>> Copying file po/boldquot.sed
>>>>> Copying file po/en@boldquot.header
>>>>> Copying file po/en@quot.header
>>>>> Copying file po/insert-header.sed
>>>>> Copying file po/quot.sed
>>>>> Copying file po/remove-potcdate.sed
>>>>> cd /usr/src/fireperf-0.2.0 && ./autogen.sh
>>>>> autopoint: File po/Makefile.in.in has been locally modified.
>>>>> autopoint: *** Some files have been locally modified. Not overwriting them because --force has not been specified. For your convenience, you find the local modifications in the file '/tmp/arhsZdgd/gtso2IqI/autopoint.diff'.
>>>>> autopoint: *** Stop.
>>>>> autoreconf: error: autopoint failed with exit status: 1
>>>>> make: *** [fireperf:86: /usr/src/log/fireperf-0.2.0] Error 1
>>>>> make: Leaving directory '/usr/src/lfs'
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Run out of ideas of what, if anything, to change further or in place of what I have tried.
>>>> Got it to build successfully.
>>>> I realised that the message was about --force not being specified for autoreconf and not autopoint so I added --force into the autoreconf command in autogen.sh and fireperf then built successfully.
>>>> Then the ddns package came along some build steps later and failed with the same message as fireperf.
>>>> So I will look at taking the same action with that one as well and see how much further I get after that.
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Adolf.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Adolf.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> -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.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>> 
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