2.1.2 Release delayed

[Nathan Buchanan]

On 5/16/07, Chris Lyttle <chris at wilddev.net> wrote:
>
> Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:
> >
> >
> >> For the record, I see this on my FC7 system too.  I've added these two
> >> files to POTFILES.skip and I'm re-testing.  I'll commit this change if
> >> it works for me.  I see no problem with skipping these files.  I don't
> >> know why it started complaining, tho.. Maybe a change in the auto
> >> tools?
> >>
> >
> > Just another update..  I decided to fix this by creating POTFILES.ignore
> > alongside POTFILES.skip.  The former file is considered "deprecated"
> > so intltool-update does complain about it, but it seems to solve the
> > problem.  Now "make check" works for me, and "make distcheck" still
> > works, too.
> >
> > I suspect that eventually we can just move to using a single
> > POTFILES.skip and remove the top-level Makefile.am checks that compare
> > the POTFILES.skip to the dist list...  Maybe.  I need to think about
> > that more, as I don't recall EXACTLY why I added that check.  I think
> > it was added to make sure we don't accidentally skip a file that we
> > distribute.
> >
> > Unfortunately there's no way (that I can see) to turn off the
> > automated "intltool-update -m" command in the newer makefile rules so
> > we're going to have to work around it somehow.
> >
> > -derek
> >
> >
> BTW Derek, I read the irc log and I have not updated my home system
> since I did the initial 2.1.0 release.


Any update on where we are with the release? I'm going to be away from my
build machine for the long weekend, so I could build the windows version
today, but not again until after the long weekend.

Nathan

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