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[Christian Stimming]

Am Dienstag, 15. Januar 2008 16:12 schrieb Derek Atkins:
> >> >> Hence, I'll commit po/POTFILES.in into SVN again soon.
> >> >
> >> > Err... I failed to find the correct Makefile rules so that
> >> > po/POTFILES.in is updated in $(srcdir)/po instead of $(builddir)/po.
> >> > Could someone with better Makefile-fu please try again? Derek,
> >> > Andreas? Thanks a lot.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure that it SHOULD do that.  IMHO the build dir should never
> >> update the srcdir -- if it does then distcheck could fail because the
> >> srcdir is non-writable.
> >
> > But if it is in SVN, by definition it will be in srcdir.
>
> Yes, but if builddir == srcdir then all is well.

Yes, but with my first try, if builddir != srcdir, I ended up with two 
(different) POTFILES.in files, which shouldn't happen. 

To make things more complicated, the processing of POTFILES.in (including the 
decision which one to use, if there are two of them) is done by gettext's 
makefile rules which are beyond our control, IIRC.

> > If it is in srcdir, its build rule must not be triggered by distcheck
> > (anymore) because srcdir is non-writable at that time.
>
> Isn't distcheck run out of the checked-out srcdir?

I don't know exactly. As it's a makefile rule, it can only be run out of the 
builddir because there isn't a Makefile in the srcdir. What I don't know is 
whether "make distcheck" *only* works in a builddir == srcdir, but I didn't 
expect it this way. Andreas?

Christian