Re: [bug-gettext] Possible small regression in generated Makefiles from gettext-0.19 with old 'make'

[Daiki Ueno]

Assaf Gordon <address@hidden> writes:

> It seems that 'PO_DEPENDS_ON_POT' is not defined anywhere, and so expanding 
> it fails with this version of 'make'.
> Note that it doesn't fail with GNU Make, or with the 'bmake' found on FreeBSD 
> 10.1.
> Adding 'PO_DEPENDS_ON_POT=no' solves the issue.
>
> Perhaps by default it can defined as 'no', instead of non-existing/empty 
> variable?

Actually, that variable is set to 'yes' in po/Makevars.template, which
is installed by autopoint:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gettext.git/tree/gettext-tools/po/Makevars.template#n68

However, if you request a gettext infrastructure of version '0.19',
po/Makevars.template is not upgraded.  That was a mistake in the 0.19
release process, and it could be fixed by requesting a newer gettext
infrastructure version, i.e., 0.19.1 or later.

Maybe we should fix it in the bundled archive.dir.tar, as people tend to
omit the teeny version.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno