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Bug 490620 - don't distribute intltool with tarballs
don't distribute intltool with tarballs
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: intltool
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: intltool maintainers
intltool maintainers
: 517691 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 323968
 
 
Reported: 2007-10-26 18:42 UTC by Havoc Pennington
Modified: 2008-12-02 19:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Havoc Pennington 2007-10-26 18:42:12 UTC 
The "intltoolize" (based on libtoolize, etc.) model is not really relevant for gnome; we already have a huge stack of dependencies, including build tools such as pkg-config.

It would be nicer if packages just required intltool to be installed, just as they require other dependencies.
Comment 1 Rodney Dawes 2008-04-12 02:02:16 UTC 
*** Bug 517691 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Rodney Dawes 2008-04-12 02:27:36 UTC 
This should work in SVN trunk now. Please test and file bugs for any issues. Would love to get this requirement set up for the 2.24 releases.
Comment 3 Claude Paroz 2008-05-15 08:51:32 UTC 
Should this be the subject of a GnomeGoal? Could you list the required changes in a standard GNOME module?
Comment 4 Mart Raudsepp 2008-09-28 04:58:59 UTC 
Based on what was done to libgnomeui, and some other common sense, I see that the following has to be done at the very least typically:

* Increase intltool version requirement to 0.40.0 in configure.ac (or configure.in) by changing the minimum version passed through the IT_PROG_INTLTOOL macro in there
* Don't EXTRA_DIST intltool-extract.in intltool-merge.in and intltool-update.in anymore (toplevel Makefile.am)
* Don't DISTCLEANFILES intltool-extract intltool-merge and intltool-update anymore (toplevel Makefile.am)
* Update copied intltool.m4 if that is for some reason included in some m4/ or macros/ dir - probably better to just get rid of it, as now intltool is required at build time anyway (before 0.40 it was required only if rebootstrap - autogen.sh call - was necessary)
Comment 5 Dan Nicholson 2008-12-02 19:13:46 UTC 
Hi,

I just stumbled onto this change when I tried to build xkeyboard-config and found that I now need intltool. It would be really cool if you could still distribute the *.in files when intltoolize was run. Then IT_PROG_INTLTOOL could look first in the build directory for the *.in scripts before searching for installed tools. Developers that don't want to ship the intltool scripts would just not run intltoolize.

If this seems reasonable, I'd be happy to work on a patch to do this.