Re: Need help with Balsa's doc/Makefile.am

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le 07. 09. 16 à 20:02, Peter Bloomfield a écrit :
> 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.)

Hi Peter,

The problem is that Damned-Lies is running on pure static sources, to 
read configurations and to extract strings.

I tried to make the variable reading code a little bit smarter to be 
able to read included variables. Now it still fails as the code returns 
after finding the first occurrence of the variable in the file (which is 
empty).
It's still a bit hackish, but what about inverting the "if 
BUILD_WITH_SPELL_CHECKER" condition in your file?

Claude
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