[Libguestfs] [PATCH] Fix build of po-docs during initial build

[Matthew Booth]

On 29/10/10 12:03, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:06:23AM +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
>>
>> Building po-docs currently fails because po-docs/ja/Makefile.am requires files
>> which are generated by po-docs/Makefile.am, which the latter does not create by
>> default.
>>
>> This patch doesn't fix the dependencies properly, but fixes the problem by
>> ensuring that po-docs/Makefile.am will build all LINGUA deps by default.
>
> NAK, it's wrong to update-po on an ordinary build.  This would mean
> that the po files are constantly being rebuilt.  They should only be
> rebuilt at 'make dist' time.

'Only' doesn't quite work here. The default make target currently builds 
the translated man pages by default. These man pages depend on the 
output of po4a, which also updates the .po files. Potential solutions I 
can think of are:

1. Run update-po (po4a) automatically when .pod or .pl files are missing
2. Check all the .pod and .pl files into git
3. Don't generate translated man pages by default.

Matt
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