GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 361993
intltools version requirement too recent
Last modified: 2006-10-14 18:02:54 UTC
On Fedora Core 5, as a result of bug 361770: checking for intltool >= 0.35.0... 0.34.2 found configure: error: Your intltool is too old. You need intltool 0.35.0 or later. make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. This will break a lot of installations if it doesn't build on something as recent as FC5. - Mike
See http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/PoLinguas. In particular, the rhythmbox note says "BLOCKED: Won't be committed until intltool 0.35 is available in more distros, as it prevent many from building cvs." - Mike
I've also requested that Fedora get a more recent intltool package: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210689 - Mike
well, this *might* break a lot of installations, but that's not GNOME's problem. complain to those installations instead. new versions have new dependencies. either the distros fix them, or the user has to bare with also resolving the dependencies when he himself wants to compile and install a shiny new blingbling version. i'm using http://fedora.osmirror.nl/core/development/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/intltool-0.35.0-1.i386.rpm to workaround this. i don't consider this as a bug at all, to me this is just named "progress". NEEDINFO, feel free to reopen when answering.
OK, point taken. Can someone give the redhat packagers a poke? - Mike
hmm, https://bugzilla.redhat.com would be the best place, i guess.