can not build hddtemp on DEBIAN Bullseye (v11)

[c64emulator]

After download, extract and runing "autogen.sh", I invoke "make" in the top directory. Make fails cause there is a endless loop in the "po" directory. Invoking "make" in the "src" directoy works.

[modem7]

Thanks @c64emulator - you resolved an issue I was having!

[yann-morin-1998]

You need to run gettextize first.

And basically, one should not need to run autogen.sh nowadays; autogen.sh is a remnnant
from decades ago, when autoreconf was not yet capable enough to detect the tools it
needs to run. Calling autoreconf should always be sufficient in recent times.

[modem7]

You need to run gettextize first.

And basically, one should not need to run autogen.sh nowadays; autogen.sh is a remnnant from decades ago, when autoreconf was not yet capable enough to detect the tools it needs to run. Calling autoreconf should always be sufficient in recent times.

@yann-morin-1998 - Would something like this be sane? (I'm not a programmer by trade, so apologies if this seems dumb)

apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
        build-essential                    \
        automake                           \
        autotools-dev                      \
        autopoint                          \
        gettext                            \
        git                                \
        pkg-config
git clone https://github.com/vitlav/hddtemp.git
cd hddtemp/
autoreconf -vsi --force
./configure
make

[yann-morin-1998]

@modem7 That's basically it, except you missed gettextize. Also, I'd not use -s if
you are packaging (e.g. creating a .deb, .rpm or so), or the source package (deb-src,
etc...) would contain symlinks; instead, I'd just copy the files (that does not amount
to much space anyway):

cd hddtemp/
getttextize -f
autoreconf -vif
./configure
make

That should basically be the canonical sequence, except gettextize should be run by
the maintainer and the result committed to the tree. But gettext is very picky on the
version: the gettext used at build must be the same as the one that was used to
gettextize the source, e.g. mixing 1.2.3 is 1.2.4 are OK, but 1.2.3 and 1.3.4 is not.
So, this is why "old" packages may need to be locally gettextized...

[modem7]

@modem7 That's basically it, except you missed gettextize. Also, I'd not use -s if you are packaging (e.g. creating a .deb, .rpm or so), or the source package (deb-src, etc...) would contain symlinks; instead, I'd just copy the files (that does not amount to much space anyway):

cd hddtemp/
getttextize -f
autoreconf -vif
./configure
make

That should basically be the canonical sequence, except gettextize should be run by the maintainer and the result committed to the tree. But gettext is very picky on the version: the gettext used at build must be the same as the one that was used to gettextize the source, e.g. mixing 1.2.3 is 1.2.4 are OK, but 1.2.3 and 1.3.4 is not. So, this is why "old" packages may need to be locally gettextized...

That makes sense!

Do you know of any way to stop gettextize prompting to "confirm"? It seems to break CI/CD otherwise.

Worst case, I can always use "expect" or similar!