[MacPorts] #60155: intltool: Why has our intltool.m4 patch not been accepted by the intltool developers?

[MacPorts]

#60155: intltool: Why has our intltool.m4 patch not been accepted by the intltool
developers?
-------------------------+----------------------
  Reporter:  ryandesign  |      Owner:  dbevans
      Type:  defect      |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal      |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports       |    Version:
Resolution:              |   Keywords:
      Port:  intltool    |
-------------------------+----------------------

Comment (by ctreleaven):

 Symptom:  A project using intltool will fail in the configure step with
 output similar to:


 {{{
 ...
 checking for perl... /opt/local/bin/perl
 checking for perl >= 5.8.1... 5.28.3
 checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is
 required for intltool
 Command failed:  cd
 "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_bblocal_var_buildworker_ports_build_ports_devel_geany/geany/work/geany-1.38"
 && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --disable-silent-rules --disable-vte
 --disable-html-docs --disable-pdf-docs --disable-api-docs --disable-
 gtkdoc-header
 Exit code: 2
 Error: Failed to configure geany: consult
 /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_bblocal_var_buildworker_ports_build_ports_devel_geany/geany/work/geany-1.38/config.log
 Error: Failed to configure geany: configure failure: command execution
 failed
 DEBUG: Error code: NONE
 }}}

 Workarounds: Until the initltool project applies the fix referenced above
 (they haven't in 9 years now), there are two possible workarounds:

 1) Use autoreconf.  The MacPorts version of intltool.m4 has been fixed and
 will produce a working configure script.

 {{{
 use_autoreconf        yes
 autoreconf.args       --install --verbose --force
 }}}

 2) Patch the upstream-provided configure script to remove the offending
 check.  For example, see
 https://github.com/macports/macports-
 ports/blob/master/xfce/libxfce4ui/files/remove-intltool-perl-hack.diff

 The upstream bug report:
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool/+bug/1197875

 Hope this helps others.

-- 
Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/60155#comment:1>
MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/>
Ports system for macOS