Fix autogen.sh failing to find gettext#662
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...which was preventing proper ./configure generation and making build from git sources impossible. Now it should look for gettext inside of ./m4/* before trying to get it from system directories. Running autogen.sh still produces some warnings about missing gettext variables and errors about missing 'Makefile.am' files but './configure && make' should succeed anyway without any issues. This issue was mentioned in: joewing#659 (comment) joewing#658 (comment) Tested on latest ArchLinux with: gettext (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.26 automake (GNU automake) 1.18.1 autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.72 also tested on Ubuntu 25.04 with: gettext (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.23.1 automake (GNU automake) 1.17 autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.72
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Also few notes after spending some time on figuring out how the build process of JWM works:
That said, I'm not very familiar with Autotools so maybe I'm just spreading nonsense right now... (sorry) |
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Also it seem that people at AUR had this exact issue according to: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jwm-git#comment-1038518 |
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Rethinking this problem after some time... I think this can be also fixed by adding |
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...which was preventing proper ./configure generation and making build from git sources impossible. Now it should look for gettext inside of ./m4/* before trying to get it from system directories.
Running autogen.sh still produces some warnings about missing gettext variables and errors about missing 'Makefile.am' files but './configure && make' should succeed anyway without any issues.
This issue was mentioned in:
#659 (comment) #658 (comment)
Tested on latest ArchLinux with:
gettext (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.26
automake (GNU automake) 1.18.1
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.72
also tested on Ubuntu 25.04 with:
gettext (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.23.1
automake (GNU automake) 1.17
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.72