Re: Intltool changes - builddir vs. srcdir and updating po files

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

It's been several hours and no replies. I've gone ahead and committed
this now.

-- dobey

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 09:18 -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> So, for some unknown reason, aside from the fact that I'm a maintainer,
> I decided to fix some pending intltool bugs last night, as many of them
> had completed, or mostly usable, patches. I have a patch to fix most all
> of the builddir != srcdir issues for doing make dist and distcheck. The
> one bit of that I have not fixed, is the update-po rule which updates
> all of the po files with the latest strings when make dist gets run. I
> know that various translators and developers would like to see that bit
> not happen, so I invariably just removed the dependency on that rule,
> so that it doesn't get run for make dist. It now has to be run manually,
> and will only work properly when builddir == srcdir.
> 
> If nobody has issue with this in the next few hours, I'm going to go
> ahead and commit the patch in question, and do a new release. I plan
> on fixing update-po among other things at some point hopefully in the
> near future, to work much better. However, I think this is sufficient
> for the time being, and makes "make dist" go much faster for large
> projects like Evolution. The bug in reference to this mail is:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159846
> 
> -- dobey
>