Error making pot file.

[Christian Stimming]

Neil Williams schrieb:
>>Does anyone know why we version-control this generated file?
> 
> make-gnucash-postfiles is made on each make started from ${top_srcdir} and 
> remade if it's deleted, so it should be safe to remove POTFILES.in from svn 
> control and let it be generated via make make pot.
> 
> AFAICT, we can remove po/POTFILES.in

No, please don't remove it. The reason why we version-control this 
generated file is because the Makefile in that directory is not under 
our control (but instead gettext's) and it doesn't contain any rules for 
creating that file. The gettext setup assumes by convention that this 
file exists and doesn't need to be generated, so as long as we use the 
gettext build system in the po directory, we need to follow that 
convention.

The rule "make pot" is simply a convenience rule for translators and was 
added by myself a few weeks ago. It is not in any way standarized or 
whatever. We can of course include the generation of po/POTFILES.in into 
that rule, but we cannot rely on this rule in general. The general 
"make" rule will decend into the po directory and will assume that 
po/POTFILES.in already exists. If it doesn't, the compile will break. 
That's why we need to have it in SVN.

I would kindly like to have r12247 and r12248 reverted.

Christian