Re: rfc: macros/gnome-gettext.m4 change

[ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>]

Finally! a reply!

I can't tell how happy I am about it.

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Darin Adler wrote:

> What this comes down to for me is that Kenneth invented the POTFILES.in
> syntax, but hasn't implemented it yet.

it is implemented, as far as extract and merge working (I tried with
x-i18n-t so it should work with intltools as well)

> intltool already uses the "patch the Makefile" approach to control how
> things are done in the po directory, and the right way to do this would be
> to add something to the intltool Makefile.in.in patch.

But Makefile.in.in doesn't include POTFILES.

> I don't think we should touch gnome-gettext.m4 at all.

Think about it for a minute. The patch will only fail if you have a file
named "[*] ", with an extra space at the end.  I'd say this is quite
rare...

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