gettext: autopoint Invocation

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1 13.6.4 Invoking the ‘autopoint’ Program
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1      autopoint [OPTION]...
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1    The ‘autopoint’ program copies standard gettext infrastructure files
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1 ‘AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(VERSION)’, found in the package’s ‘configure.in’
1 or ‘configure.ac’ file, the gettext version used by the package, and
1 copies the infrastructure files belonging to this version into the
1 package.
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1    To extract the latest available infrastructure which satisfies a
1 version requirement, then you can use the form
1 ‘AM_GNU_GETTEXT_REQUIRE_VERSION(VERSION)’ instead.  For example, if
1 gettext 0.19.8 is installed on your system and ‘0.19.1’ is requested,
1 then the infrastructure files of version 0.19.8 will be copied into a
1 source package.
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1 13.6.4.1 Options
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1 ‘-f’
1 ‘--force’
1      Force overwriting of files that already exist.
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1 ‘-n’
1 ‘--dry-run’
1      Print modifications but don’t perform them.  All file copying
1      actions that ‘autopoint’ would normally execute are inhibited and
1      instead only listed on standard output.
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1 13.6.4.2 Informative output
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1 ‘--help’
1      Display this help and exit.
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1 ‘--version’
1      Output version information and exit.
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1    ‘autopoint’ supports the GNU ‘gettext’ versions from 0.10.35 to the
1 current one, 0.19.8.  In order to apply ‘autopoint’ to a package using a
1 ‘gettext’ version newer than 0.19.8, you need to install this same
1 version of GNU ‘gettext’ at least.
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1    In packages using GNU ‘automake’, an invocation of ‘autopoint’ should
1 be followed by invocations of ‘aclocal’ and then ‘autoconf’ and
1 ‘autoheader’.  The reason is that ‘autopoint’ installs some autoconf
1 macro files, which are used by ‘aclocal’ to create ‘aclocal.m4’, and the
1 latter is used by ‘autoconf’ to create the package’s ‘configure’ script
1 and by ‘autoheader’ to create the package’s ‘config.h.in’ include file
1 template.
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1    The name ‘autopoint’ is an abbreviation of ‘auto-po-intl-m4’; the
1 tool copies or updates mostly files in the ‘po’, ‘intl’, ‘m4’
1 directories.
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