[sane-devel] Proposal to remove autoconf-generated files from the source repository

[Povilas Kanapickas]

Hi Rolf, Olaf,

On 2019-06-16 14:43, Rolf Bensch wrote:
> Hi Olaf,
> 
> Unfortunately `./autogen.sh` isn't working with Ubuntu Xenial:
> 
> $ ./autogen.sh
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
> autopoint: *** The AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION declaration in your configure.ac
>                file requires the infrastructure from gettext-0.19.8 but
> this version
>                is older. Please upgrade to gettext-0.19.8 or newer.
> autopoint: *** Stop.
> autoreconf: autopoint failed with exit status: 1
> patching file ./ltmain.sh
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 9615.
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 10073.
> 2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file ./ltmain.sh.rej
> patch: **** Can't reopen file ./ltmain.sh : No such file or directory
> 
> Xenial provides gettext-0.19.7.

Can we just require version 0.19.7? 0.19.8 doesn't seem to contain
anything new that would be related to what we're using.

Regards,
Povilas