make check failure: missing POTFILES
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Jan 28 12:47:02 EST 2013
Larry,
John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
> OK, now I understand what's going on.
>
> The problem is that paths in POTFILES.* are like "src/bin/gnucash-bin.c" and the paths that are presented to intltool-update are "../src/po/../src/bin/gnucash-bin.c" (you can look at the list starting on line 69 of build/po/Makefile for what they actually are), and so the paths don't match.
>
> There will be a file named "missing" in src/po. You could move POTFILES.in out of the way and move missing to POTFILES.in. That should fix the paths so that make check succeeds. Or you could edit build/Makefile and remove "po" from SUBDIRS, so make will ignore it.
Another option -- why not just use lndir in the build tree? Then the
"sources" would be local.
mkdir build
cd build
lndir ../src
./configure ...
make all check (install)
> Regards,
> John Ralls
-derek
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