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

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--- Comment #18 from Tijl Coosemans <tijl at FreeBSD.org> ---
In make syntax it's not easy to scan configure.ac and then modify
BUILD_DEPENDS, so I would say it's not feasible to fix the framework.  In ports
like fetchmail you really should just use:

USES=autoreconf gettext-tools
NLS_USES=gettext-runtime

That's easier for you to maintain and easier for me as autotools maintainer. 
In a way, disabling the NLS option does not mean without gettext, it means
without natural language support.  It's perhaps unfortunate that it may still
need gettext, but so be it.  As a build dependency it's not a big deal imho. 
It would be different if it was a run dependency.

Autoreconf doesn't just need autopoint by the way, it also needs gettext.m4 to
get the definition of the AM_GNU_GETTEXT macro.  Presumably, fetchmail has a
bundled copy of gettext.m4, but that's not something the framework can rely on.

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