Error making pot file.

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 03:58:09PM -0500, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> 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.

`make etags`

Yeah, that was it.  Same problems with lndir.  If I was going to still
use lndir, I'd write a script to clean the tree of broken links.  

-chris