[GNC-dev] Gnucash 2.6: make distcheck in po bombs on file paths starting with sub

[John Ralls]

> On Jun 13, 2020, at 1:33 AM, Kevin Buckley <kevin.m.buckley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, I know 2.6 is older than old now, but this must have worked once.
> 
> FWIW, I have taken the 2.6.21 source tree, which had the old
> hierarchy under topdir/src and moved everything around so as
> to match the new source layout that came in for 2.7.
> 
> Nearly everything works, however when I come to do a
> 
> make distcheck
> 
> the files that would typically get ignored, by virtue of being in
> 
> POTFILES.skip
> 
> blow up the distcheck because the build of the distribution, taking place in
> 
> ${distdir}/_build/sub/po
> 
> sees files such as
> 
> sub/gnucash/gnome/gnucash.desktop.in
> sub/gnucash/import-export/qif-imp/qif-dialog-utils.scm
> sub/gnucash/import-export/qif-imp/qif-file.scm
> sub/gnucash/import-export/qif-imp/qif-import/qif-dialog-utils.scm
> 
> and of course, if it wasn't for the sub at the start it would complete
> because it does when I do a simple "make check"
> 
> I'm assuming there's a missing "builddir", "top_builddir" or "abs_top_builddir"
> that's not being prepended somewhere but I can't see where it needs to be
> put in.
> 
> The make check is running a
> 
> srcdir=../../../po /path/to/intltool-update -m
> 
> from
> 
> ${distdir}/_build/sub/po
> 
> 
> Any clues/pointers ?
> 
> As I say, this must have worked once (at least once?),

Fromm the path it looks to be an in-srcdir build. Did you try an out-of-srcdir build?

If that doesn't do it, paste in the actual output leading up to and including the error.

Regards,
John Ralls