Error making pot file.

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 11:23:01AM +0100, Christian Stimming wrote:
> 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.

I thought there was some reason, I just couldn't remember.  Instead of
reverting, I'll commit a stub po/POTFILES.in explaining why the file
is in SVN.  Then maybe we can set an ignore property for it.

-chris