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configure.ac or configure.in - this is the source from which
autoconf
generates the configure script.
This is done by a set of lines like these:
PACKAGE=gettext VERSION=0.22 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, 0.22)
Of course, you replace ‘gettext’ with the name of your package,
and ‘0.22’ by its version numbers, exactly as they
should appear in the packaged tar
file name of your distribution
(gettext-0.22.tar.gz, here).
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.
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.