Error making pot file.

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 03:42:04PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:
> 
> > Any chance we could change this slightly..  If
> > ${top_srcdir}/Makefile.am is a symlink, can we follow that symlink and
> > run from there?  This would also allow this process to work in an
> > "lndir tree".
> 
> FYI, the reason I'm asking this is because the lndir tree sometimes
> has dangling symlinks, so running from the REAL source tree is always
> safer in this case.

Is this unique to `make pot`?  IIRC, dangling symlinks cause problems
for all sorts of build tree operations.  I was always bombing and then
deleting the broken links.  That or lndir a new directory and lose all
the object files.  Actually, that's pretty much why I stopped using
lndir.  Oh, I remember.  That, and it totally doesn't work with
programs that backup a file, modify it, and then put it back to undo
-- they don't restore the links.  It meant I couldn't use quilt with
lndir.  I think I couldn't do svn operations from the lndir'd
directory, too.

-chris