cmake failure (was:Re: Source directory restructuring)

[Aaron Laws]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 3:13 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
wrote:

> On donderdag 10 augustus 2017 07:08:38 CEST Sumit Bhardwaj wrote:
> > John and Geert,
> >
> > As I remembered, I am still having problem with cmake. I have pasted the
> > error message below. Is this a known problem? If not, will it be better
> to
> > wait for Geert's restructuring and then try to fix it? For reference,
> > autotools work.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sumit
> >
> > ​[3/942] cd /home/bhardwajs/ac/devel/gnucash/po && /usr/bin/cmake ...e
> -D
> > PO_DIR=/home/bhardwajs/ac/devel/gnucash/po -P check-po.cmake
> > FAILED: po/CMakeFiles/check-po
> > cd /home/bhardwajs/ac/devel/gnucash/po && /usr/bin/cmake -D
> > INTLTOOL_UPDATE=/usr/bin/intltool-update -D
> PO_DIR=/home/bhardwajs/ac/deve
> > l/gnucash/po -P check-po.cmake
> > The usage of POTFILES.ignore is deprecated. Please consider moving the
> > content of this file to POTFILES.skip.
> > The following files contain translations and are currently not in use.
> > Please
> > consider adding these to the POTFILES.in file, located in the po/
> directory
> >
> > If some of these files are left out on purpose then please add them to
> > POTFILES.skip instead of POTFILES.in. A file 'missing' containing this
> list
> > of left out files has been written in the current directory.
> > Please report to gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
> > CMake Error at check-po.cmake:22 (MESSAGE):
> >  POTFILES.in is missing files.  See 'missing' in
> >  /home/bhardwajs/ac/devel/gnucash/po
>
> That's a weird error and I can't reproduce.
>
> What platform/os are you on ?
> What are the exact commands you are using to get here ?
> What's the contents of /home/bhardwajs/ac/devel/gnucash/po/missing ?
>
> Geert


I remember getting that error a long time ago, but I don't remember how to
fix it. I think it has something to do with deleting a generated file and
having make re-generate it? It seems like we have a generated file in
version control? Is POTFILES.in generated and version controlled for
example?