configure spewage on clean svn tree due to missing POTFILES

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 06:11:59PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Quoting Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>:
> 
> >On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 05:02:03PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >>I just tried to build from a current SVN tree, a clean checkout
> >>(effectively), and I got the following spewage from configure:
> >>
> >>checking what extra warning flags to pass to the C compiler...  
> >>-Werror -Wdeclaration-after-statement
> >>mv: cannot stat `po/POTFILES': No such file or directory
> >>./configure: line 37704: po/POTFILES.tmp: No such file or directory
> >>configure: creating ./config.status
> >
> >I can't reproduce this on FC4 or FC3.  Our configure.in doesn't
> >mention POTFILES directly so this must come from some macro, maybe
> >AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT?  Or maybe it's something from the po/Makefile.in?
> >What versions do you have of those?  Maybe send me your configure
> >offline?
> 
> Really?  I'm seeing this on a fully-updated FC3 system.  

Still can't reproduce on full-updated FC3.

> I know that
> configure.in doesn't mention POTFILES directly, but something is
> certainly bringing it into configure.  The configure script is
> attached.

The attachement is damaged.  Seems to contain random newlines and
'!'s.

> 
> Note:  this was with a completely clean checkout; autogen had never
> been run before on this tree.

Ah ok, before _this_ time.

-chris