[Bug 234833] USES=autoreconf fails if a port uses gettext but user disables NLS port option

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234833

Matthias Andree <mandree at FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #8 from Matthias Andree <mandree at FreeBSD.org> ---
I happen to be the upstream maintainer of fetchmail (whilst *not* maintaining
FreeBSD's port) and believe that I know what I am doing with all GNU autotools
(except libtool, which I find arcane). 

I know that the gettext stuff that ships with fetchmail's tarball matches
what's needed and is fine, and that the configure.ac patches that require us to
run autoreconf (actually, only autoconf, not even aclocal) will not require
autopoint. Perhaps I should propose another change to the port to its
maintainer (Corey Halpin) to reduce the ifs and buts to one unconditional
"autoconf" run in pre-configure and move on, rather than trying to convince
portmgr@ that the current state of affairs around autoreconf isn't complete,
and to convince autoreconf that it can waive running autopoint...

Introducing gettext dependencies, however, for a port that can well live
without as long as the NLS option is disabled, is certainly not viable.

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