Re: po/LINGUAS revisited

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 5/9/06, Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> wrote:
> On 5/9/06, Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
> > I tried to get Gnome 2.15.1 into rawhide today, but mostly failed.
> > Many of the 2.15.1 tarballs
> >
> > a) contain no translations at all
> > b) require a cvs version of intltool
>
> I thought (a) was resolved in this thread:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-April/msg00478.html
> (though I don't know whether all relevant modules got updated...).
> Was I mistaken?  Either way, we should probably follow up to make sure
> the incompatiblity with solaris-sh was actually fixed, so that people
> don't need to remember the workaround in order to get translations in
> their tarballs.
>
> For (b), both Vincent and I built from the 2.15.1 tarballs without a
> cvs version of intltool.  Did we do something funny or did you?

Building works fine if you don't care that there are no translations.
Unfortunately
(or fortunately), rpmbuild is not so forgiving and fails if the translations
are missing.

Matthias