Re: Problems with xml-i18n-prepare and .directory files

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas online no>]

Den tor, 2001-09-06 kl. 17:16 skrev Darin Adler:
> on 9/6/01 1:53 AM, Kjartan Maraas at kmaraas@online.no wrote:
> 
> > After running xml-i18n-prepare in gnome-core I noticed that it didn't
> > make the neccesary changes to Makefile.am in the directories containing
> > .directory files. Somehow the script gets confused in there.
> 
> What confuses it is the more-complicated install rules for .directory files,
> not the different extension.
> 
> > After looking at xml-i18n-prepare.in it seems to me that .directory
> > files are treated as equal to .desktop, .keys and .soundlist files.
> 
> Yes, that's right.
> 
> > &fix_makefiles;    #<- this fails for .directory files for some reason
> 
> > And this doesn't generate anything in Makefile.am for .directory files.
> 
> That's not true. It handles directory files the same way it handles desktop
> files. But the makefiles that are dealing with .directory files handle them
> in a more complicated way because their names are changed as part of the
> install process. Because of that, xml-i18n-prepare doesn't handle these
> makefiles properly.

Yeah. I found this out after a while. Thanks for clearing this up.

Cheers
Kjartan