request consideration for aclocal.m4 modification

[Felipe Contreras]

2008/2/28 Bill Fassler <bill.fassler at yahoo.com>:
> Gang -
>
> No one responded to my last thread regarding this second modification that I
> must make in order to get finch cross-compiled to the Blackfin DSP
> architecture.
>
> So I will explicitly ask for the modification of aclocal.m4 although my
> patch may not necessarily be the best solution.
>
> I see this error:
>
> make[3]: Entering directory
> `/home/vocal/project/blackfin-svn-trunk/bf561-vphone/archive/uClinux-wchar/user/pidgin-first/libpurple'
> Making all in gconf
> make[4]: Entering directory
> `/home/vocal/project/blackfin-svn-trunk/bf561-vphone/archive/uClinux-wchar/user/pidgin-first/libpurple/gconf'
> LC_ALL=C ../../intltool-merge -s -u -c ../../po/.intltool-merge-cache
> ../../po purple.schemas.in purple.schemas
> Possible unintended interpolation of @INTLTOOL_ICONV in string at
> ../../intltool-merge line 96.
> Global symbol "@INTLTOOL_ICONV" requires explicit package name at
> ../../intltool-merge line 96.
> BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at ../../intltool-merge
> line 263.
> make[4]: *** [purple.schemas] Error 9
>
> and nothing as simple as running autogen.sh, autoreconf -i, libtoolize
> --force or intltoolize --force works in and of itself.
>
> I was reminded of this when I had to do a distclean in order to obtain the
> pre and post version of my config.log to help justify my request to modifiy
> configure.ac.
>
> Now upon a second round of experience with this, it seems like I need to
> modify aclocal.m4 and then also run libtoolize --force and intltoolize
> --force, but one thing is certain pidgin-2.3.1 will not cross compile for my
> architecture as is.

I would suggest "autoreconf -f -i" instead.

-- 
Felipe Contreras