[PATCH xwininfo] Use AM_ICONV

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 21:24 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Needing to include config.rpath in the repository seems quite
> annoying to me, as it will get out of sync with the upstream version.

Not really.  config.rpath, while it ships with gettext, really comes
from gnulib.  Furthermore, it is rarely updated:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=history;f=build-aux/config.rpath

> The problem is that autoreconf and autopoint, do not handle packages
> just using AM_ICONV.

Unfortunate but correct.

> But this can be worked around by declaring we need AM_GNU_GETTEXT, which
> is a bit of a heavy hammer solution, but oh well...

That's a pretty big overkill, particularly for xclock, besides that it
would make the build that much longer for no reason.


Yaakov
Cygwin/X