Re: Intltool and disting of .gmo files

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Rodney Dawes wrote:

> Currently, intltool is distributing the generated .gmo files, within
> tarballs. Christian Persch recently filed a bug against intltool, as
> this still causes some issues with builddir != srcdir. I'd prefer to
> not duplicate generated files if possible. If anyone has sufficient
> reason as to why they should be distributed, please speak up now, or
> I'm going to fix intltool to stop distributing them tonight, and make
> a release with some other fixes as well. The bug in question is:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166724
>  
I think the reason why gettext's Makefile.in.in distributes the .gmo 
files is so that you can install the translations from a tarball install 
even if you don't have the gettext utilities installed (msgfmt, etc).

I haven't noticed any builddir!=srcdir problems with the stock gettext 
or glib-gettextize Makefile.in.in, so I guess this is an intltool 
specific problem.  Is there any reason not to follow what the existing 
tools do here?

James.