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The autopoint program copies standard gettext infrastructure files
into a source package. It extracts from a macro call of the form
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(version), found in the package’s
configure.in or configure.ac file, the gettext version
used by the package, and copies the infrastructure files belonging to
this version into the package.
To extract the latest available infrastructure which satisfies a version
requirement, then you can use the form
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION(version) instead. For
example, if gettext 0.23 is installed on your system
and 0.19.1 is requested, then the infrastructure files of version
0.23 will be copied into a source package.
autopoint supports the GNU gettext versions from 0.10.35
to the current one, 0.23. In order to apply
autopoint to a package using a gettext version newer than
0.23, you need to install this same version of GNU
gettext at least.
In packages using GNU automake, an invocation of autopoint
should be followed by invocations of aclocal and then autoconf
and autoheader. The reason is that autopoint installs some
autoconf macro files, which are used by aclocal to create
aclocal.m4, and the latter is used by autoconf to create the
package’s configure script and by autoheader to create the
package’s config.h.in include file template.
The name ‘autopoint’ is an abbreviation of ‘auto-po-intl-m4’; in earlier versions, the tool copied or updated mostly files in the po, intl, m4 directories.