Bug#373643: Unsupported or non-substituted DATADIRNAME variable in Makefile.in.in template

[Loïc Minier]

        Hi,

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> No. It was a run from a clean CVS-copy running autogen.sh, which runs
> intltoolize (the CVS-copy itself does not contain this file, so it is
> freshly created from the file /usr/share/intltool/Makefile.in.in). I use
> automake 1.9 and the latest autoconf package.

 Ok, could you try calling GLIB_WITH_NLS in configure.ac before
 intltool?  Could you provide the necessary files to reproduce your
 problem?  (perhaps the upstream CVS location if it's public)

>                                               It is also a bit
> surprising to me, that $itlocaledir does not make use of $datadir.
> Instead it uses this (IMHO) crappy (sorry) expression
> '$(prefix)/$(DATADIRNAME)/locale' Is there a special reason for this?

 One thing at a time.  :)

 (You can file another bug report on that particular problem.)

> Further the --localedir options was introduced recently. IMHO the used
> expression will ignore this option. So IMHO, a check for configure.ac
> should be added to test on $localedir and the current solution (without
> the bug) should be the fallback (IMHO this is a suggestion for
> upstream).

 I don't understand this last part.

   Bye,
-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>