Need help with Balsa's doc/Makefile.am

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

Current development of the Balsa email client takes place in its gtk3  
branch, which was only recently included in damned-lies by Piotr Drąg (to  
whom many thanks!). The Module Statistics[1] show that the POT file for  
the User Guide is unavailable:

Notices
Error regenerating POT file for document balsa-help:

itstool -o <scratchdir>/git/balsa/doc/C/balsa-help.pot  
C/$(balsa_help_files) C/$(balsa_spell_extra)
Error: cannot open XML file C/$(balsa_help_files)

The doc/Makefile.am defines balsa_help_files and balsa_spell_extra as  
space-separated lists of files, and then sets:

HELP_FILES   = $(balsa_help_files) $(balsa_spell_extra)

So apparently $(HELP_FILES) is being used literally, without replacing  
$(balsa_help_files) and $(balsa_spell_extra) by their definitions. Is that  
not the correct way to concatenate two lists of files? (FWIW, "cd doc &&  
make pot" makes balsa.pot with no errors.)

Thanks for any help!

Peter Bloomfield

[1] <URL:https://l10n.gnome.org/module/balsa/#gtk3>

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