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Bug 952941 - sys-devel/gettext-0.24 has been released, bump could be trouble
Summary: sys-devel/gettext-0.24 has been released, bump could be trouble
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Depends on: 951061
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Reported: 2025-03-31 00:48 UTC by Sebastian Pipping
Modified: 2025-04-17 18:29 UTC (History)
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Description Sebastian Pipping gentoo-dev 2025-03-31 00:48:35 UTC 
A quick note that bumping to gettext 0.24 may bring two kinds of trouble:
- https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66865
- https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/217346
Comment 1 Sebastian Pipping gentoo-dev 2025-03-31 02:22:38 UTC 
For a reproducer that works with 0.23.1 and breaks with 0.24:

  cd "$(mktemp -d)"
  git clone --depth 1 --branch 0.4.x https://github.com/Libvisual/libvisual/
  cd libvisual/libvisual-plugins
  ./autogen.sh
  make dist

(HEAD is at 56135617f021d3b40a7750837c2f4fe75d100762 at the moment.)

With 0.24 the symptom is:

  make[3]: Entering directory '/tmp/tmp.FviCbX6GZW/libvisual/libvisual-plugins/po'
  make[3]: *** No rule to make target '/config.status', needed by 'Makefile'.  Stop.
  make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/tmp.FviCbX6GZW/libvisual/libvisual-plugins/po'

I'm working on a reproducible report for non-Gentoo gettext upstream.
Comment 2 Sebastian Pipping gentoo-dev 2025-03-31 20:24:14 UTC 
One of the two turned out a bug elsewhere, dropping, details at:
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/217346#issuecomment-2766999860