configure spewage on clean svn tree due to missing POTFILES

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 07:25:40PM -0500, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 06:11:59PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Quoting Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>:
> > 
> > >On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 05:02:03PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > >>I just tried to build from a current SVN tree, a clean checkout
> > >>(effectively), and I got the following spewage from configure:
> > >>
> > >>checking what extra warning flags to pass to the C compiler...  
> > >>-Werror -Wdeclaration-after-statement
> > >>mv: cannot stat `po/POTFILES': No such file or directory
> > >>./configure: line 37704: po/POTFILES.tmp: No such file or directory
> > >>configure: creating ./config.status
> > >
> > >I can't reproduce this on FC4 or FC3.  Our configure.in doesn't
> > >mention POTFILES directly so this must come from some macro, maybe
> > >AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT?  Or maybe it's something from the po/Makefile.in?
> > >What versions do you have of those?  Maybe send me your configure
> > >offline?
> > 
> > Really?  I'm seeing this on a fully-updated FC3 system.  
> 
> Still can't reproduce on full-updated FC3.
> 
> > I know that
> > configure.in doesn't mention POTFILES directly, but something is
> > certainly bringing it into configure.  The configure script is
> > attached.
> 
> The attachement is damaged.  Seems to contain random newlines and
> '!'s.

Actually, the damage isn't completely random.  Seems to be about a
dozen places where there is localized damage limited to newlines,
spaces and bangs.

Maybe it's not mailer damage, but really in your file, since, when I
undamage the file, it's 100% identical to my script.

-chris