[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/transmission: fix build with autoconf >= 2.71

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Sat, 9 Oct 2021 23:01:54 +0200
Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I am rather confused, because I don't see any changes between autoconf
> > 2.70 and 2.71 that seem to explain this, and the message "ERROR:
> > 'IT_PROG_INTLTOOL' must appear in configure.ac for intltool to work"  
> I assume that the culprit on autoconf side is:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commit;h=b3b3af821a0b9e82ebe56b77b1731d2fe58f52de
> So build failure is raised since autoconf 2.70 and not 2.71.

Ah, indeed that seems more plausible.

BTW, do you understand this mess of gtkdocize and intltoolize, and the
reasoning behind the commit that you're pointing to?

> A bug has been opened on intltool but there is no upstream reaction:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool/+bug/1921816

Yeah, I've seen that. And there has been no release since 2015
apparently.

Thomas
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