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Re: FYI: flag missing po/ and intl/ as warnings, not errors (PR/381)


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: FYI: flag missing po/ and intl/ as warnings, not errors (PR/381)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 16:16:22 +0100 (CET)

Alexandre Duret-Lutz writes:
> This should help zaufi (sorry I don't know your name)
> build a package with multiple po/ directories.

Thanks. zaufi = "Alexander Turbov".

> It would be nice to find something smarter to do in Automake
> 1.8.  We could try to be more clever at spotting po/ directories
> in the source tree (how?).

In http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2003-01/msg00014.html
I suggested to omit the error message if there is no po/ directory at
top level. The idea is:

  1) If a package doesn't have a directory po/ at top level, it
     will likely have multiple po/ directories in subpackages.

  2) It is useful to warn for the absence of intl/ if AM_GNU_GETTEXT
     is used without 'external'. It is also useful to warn for the
     presence of intl/ if AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) is used. Both
     warnings apply only to the usual layout of packages, therefore
     they should both be disabled if no po/ directory is found at
     top level.

> Another possibility is to drop these
> diagnostic entirely, and let users discover by themselves when
> a project is misconfigured.

This would be a step backward for the common, single-po/ case.

Bruno




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