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[H.G.Muller]

The question, however, is whether making this change would now spoil it for people that actually have gettext 0.18 installed on their system. In that case we would have just swapped one problem for another.

That the actual version does not matter is not very surprising, as we are using only the most basic functionality, that 0.01 probably already had. One can hope, of course, that there is some backward compatibility here, where one only has to specify the minimally required version, and that a higher version number would automatically be OK.

[edit]: apparently not! When I change the number in Makefile.in.in to 0.16, it still complains that 0.16 != 0.17.

What I don't understand is that when I change the AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(0.17) into 0.18, keeping 0.18 in the Makefile.in.in, it still complains that 0.17 != 0.18. Apparently it still takes what I have then, and not what I specify.