bug#25643: po/Makefile.in.in is missing top_builddir

[Jim Meyering]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 7:18 AM, Max Horn <address@hidden> wrote:
> this is a bug that affects grep 2.28 and several preceding versions: The
> po/Makefile.in.in is using $top_builddir, but the variable is never set.
> Fixing this is of course trivial, one just needs to insert
>
>  top_builddir = @top_builddir@
>
> in the appropriate place. However, this file is not present in the grep
> repository, so I am guessing it is generated by something (gettext?). As I
> have no idea how this all works, I am afraid I cannot supply a proper patch,
> but I hope the issue is clear, and that you will know how to resolve it.

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