Re: [Monotone-devel] Contradiction in Makefile.am

[Thomas Keller]

Am 23.02.2011 07:42, schrieb Richard Levitte:
> I just had a closer look at the NLS support in Makefile.am, and I'm
> finding this (dist-nls used to be dist-local until that one needed
> expanding):
> 
> ...
> CLEAN_POFILES := $(ALL_GMOFILES) \
>                $(addprefix po/,$(addsuffix .merged.po, $(ALL_LINGUAS))) \
>                po/$(PACKAGE).pot
> ...
> dist-nls: $(ALL_GMOFILES)
>       cp $(ALL_GMOFILES) $(distdir)/po
> ...
> 
> 
> Now, I don't know about you, but to me, it seems contradictory to have
> the .gmo files be part of the distribution, but then have them wiped
> with 'make clean'.
> 
> So, how shall we have it?  What's the reason for .gmo files to be part
> of the source distribution?  Or, if they really should be (I'm sure
> there is a good justification), why are they part of things to be
> cleaned with 'make clean'???

For me it sounds wrong to have the gmo files compiled in the tarball,
but there might have been a good reason why this has been the case in
the past. If there are no strong objections I'm all for removing the gmo
files from dist.

Thomas.

-- 
GPG-Key 0x160D1092 | address@hidden | http://thomaskeller.biz
Please note that according to the EU law on data retention, information
on every electronic information exchange might be retained for a period
of six months or longer: http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/?lang=en

signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature