config.rpath, autogen.sh, gettextize, [WAS: test-dom-converters1 failure]

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:12:06PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 02:13:23PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Quoting Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>:
> > 
> > >Does anyone know of a way to run 'make distcheck' without actually
> > >running the tests?
> > 
> > "make dist" instead of "distcheck"
> 
> Thanks.  But, I get:
> 
> $ make dist
> make: *** No rule to make target `config.rpath', needed by `distdir'.  Stop.
> 
> I gather config.rpath is generated by gettextize.  It seems that the
> use of gettext has been partially removed from autogen.sh.  All those
> messages about where to fetch gettext are incorrect.
> 

I found:
2003-06-14  gettextize  <bug-gnu-gettext at gnu.org>

        * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add config.rpath.

in ChangeLog.  What kind of name is gettextize!?  Anyway, is
config.rpath really supposed to be in EXTRA_DIST?

-chris

> 
> 4) Is {glib-}gettextize required or not?  We never complain about not
> finding gettextize.  But, we seem to assume that we can use
> glib-gettextize without checking for it.
> 
>   4a) Does it matter that it seems that glib-gettextize doesn't do
> anything related to config.rpath, while gettextize does?  Is this
> related to make dist failure?