From mtortonesi at ing.unife.it  Wed Apr 21 10:54:49 2004
From: mtortonesi at ing.unife.it (Mauro Tortonesi)
Date: Wed Apr 21 09:48:04 2004
Subject: [ds6-devel] new nc6 release very soon now...
Message-ID: <200404210954.49868.mtortonesi@ing.unife.it>


hi guys,

	i am planning to release the new 0.6 (or maybe 0.5.99 if i won't be able to
clean up the bluez support code) version of nc6 very soon. i have just
updated the i18n subsystem to use gettext 0.14.1 [1] and i've made minor but
significant changes to the build system (which now works with autoconf 2.59
and automake 1.8.3).

i have uploaded a test tarball here:

ftp://ftp.deepspace6.net/ds6/sources/nc6/test/nc6-0.5-cvs.tar.{gz,bz2}

could you please test it and report if you find some stupid bugs?

thank you very much ;-)



[1] for those of you who don't know, gettextize is a *REAL* PITA. i've lost
    half an hour debugging a stupid problem with the Makefile.in.in provided
    by the latest version of gettextize (0.14.1).

    the problem was that latest version of automake (1.8.3) does not install
    mkinstalldirs anymore. from the automake manual:


`mkinstalldirs'
     This script used to be a wrapper around `mkdir -p', which is not
     portable.  Now we use prefer to use `install-sh -d' when configure
     finds that `mkdir -p' does not work, this makes one less script to
     distribute.

     For backward compatibility `mkinstalldirs' is still used and
     distributed when `automake' finds it in a package.  But it is no
     longer installed automatically, and it should be safe to remove it.


    unfortunately (or should i say "of course"?), it seems that nobody has
    warned the gettext developers of this change, so the Makefile.in.in file
    provided by gettextize is ***still based on mkinstalldirs***.

    i wonder if those crazy autotools guys at the FSF do *really* talk each
    other...

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Mauro Tortonesi                 mtortonesi@ing.unife.it
                                mauro@deepspace6.net
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