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gettext: configure

 
 13.4.5 ‘configure.ac’ at top level
 ----------------------------------
 
    ‘configure.ac’ or ‘configure.in’ - this is the source from which
 ‘autoconf’ generates the ‘configure’ script.
 
   1. Declare the package and version.
 
      This is done by a set of lines like these:
 
           PACKAGE=gettext
           VERSION=0.21
           AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(PACKAGE, "$PACKAGE")
           AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(VERSION, "$VERSION")
           AC_SUBST(PACKAGE)
           AC_SUBST(VERSION)
 
      or, if you are using GNU ‘automake’, by a line like this:
 
           AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(gettext, 0.21)
 
      Of course, you replace ‘gettext’ with the name of your package, and
      ‘0.21’ by its version numbers, exactly as they should appear in the
      packaged ‘tar’ file name of your distribution
      (‘gettext-0.21.tar.gz’, here).
 
   2. Check for internationalization support.
 
      Here is the main ‘m4’ macro for triggering internationalization
      support.  Just add this line to ‘configure.ac’:
 
           AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])
 
      This call is purposely simple, even if it generates a lot of
      configure time checking and actions.
 
   3. Have output files created.
 
      The ‘AC_OUTPUT’ directive, at the end of your ‘configure.ac’ file,
      needs to be modified in two ways:
 
           AC_OUTPUT([EXISTING CONFIGURATION FILES po/Makefile.in],
           [EXISTING ADDITIONAL ACTIONS])
 
      The modification to the first argument to ‘AC_OUTPUT’ asks for
      substitution in the ‘po/’ directory.  Note the ‘.in’ suffix used
      for ‘po/’ only.  This is because the distributed file is really
      ‘po/Makefile.in.in’.
 

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