Error making pot file.

[Neil Williams]

On Wednesday 04 January 2006 5:30 pm, Christian Stimming wrote:
> > 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.

No. That's what my top level Makefile.am changes arranged - the 
make-gnucash-potfiles script is auto-generated by make, the same target also 
RUNS make-gnucash-potfiles and generates po/POTFILES.in

po/POTFILES.in IS under our control - it was never under direct control from 
po/
 
The po/ Makefile symlink only uses whatever WE provide for POTFILES.in to 
generate POTFILES.

> Err, what does a stub help here?

It does not.

> The point is that people (and maybe 
> translators) run "make" and expect that the gnucash.pot will be
> correctly built.

It is. Now. Please try deleting the file and run make. 

> This is only achieved if there is a ready-to-use 
> po/POTFILES.in in SVN, IMHO.

Wrong. The adapted Makefile.am allows make (the simple, plain, no special 
target, make) to build both make-gnucash-potfiles AND po/POTFILES.in

> This is what gettextize conventions are, so 
> we have to stick to that. I don't understand how else you try to achieve
> this.
>

Christian, please delete po/POTFILES.in and make-gnucash-potfiles. Then run 
make.

You'll see them re-appear (providing you are up to date).

PLEASE can we remove the po/POTFILES.in stub - it is a travesty.

It cannot be ignored by SVN, it trips svn status EVERY time make is run. IT'll 
get accidentally committed dozens of times.

Having any po/POTFILES.in in SVN is a mistake.

It's OUR file to build and build it we (now) do.

-- 

Neil Williams
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