stamp-po not removed during distclean in non-local builds

[psmith]

Hi Bruno;

I'm upgrading GNU make to gettext 0.12.1.  I have a problem when I
use the distcheck automake target to create distributions.  One of the
things distcheck checks is that after it runs "make distclean", the
temporary work area is actually clean.

The po/Makefile.in.in that comes with gettext 0.12.1 creates the
stamp-po file in the build area po directory, but then when you run
"make distclean" it isn't deleted it again, which causes the distcheck
target to fail.


I'm not sure about all the ins and outs of the stamp-po file, but it
seems to me one possible solution is to look for it in srcdir only; this
would involve changing all references to stamp-po to $(srcdir)/stamp-po.
Is this a proper change?

If not, you can put a test in the distclean that only removes stamp-po
if srcdir is != "."; something like:

        @test "$(srcdir)" = . || rm -f stamp-po

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