Re: [Wesnoth-dev] make should not alter files in CVS

[John McNabb]

Well, I guess that means I get to hunt down the bug, but at least I know 
that it is a bug and fixing it should not break things for other people.

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Guillaume Melquiond wrote:

> On 4/28/05, John McNabb wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Guillaume Melquiond wrote:
> > > On 4/28/05, John McNabb wrote:
> > > >         I have found it a little irritating that the current make scheme
> > > > invalidates/update nearly all files in the po directory.
> > >
> > > Hmm... It doesn't for me, everything works fine: the files are updated
> > > only when I explicitly ask for it, not when I build the code and
> > > install Wesnoth. Which make-target are you building?
> > >
> > 
> > I usually am just using 'make' with no target.  This means it should be
> > targeting the first target in the Makefile, and looking through the
> > auto-generated make script this looks like 'all'.  There are a lot of
> > targets.  Is there one that I should be using instead of the default which
> > will do what I want?
> 
> No, the default one should be fine, it's the one I use too. But that's
> strange, it should not call the "update-po" target; this target should
> only be called upon "dist" building (see po/Makefile.in.in). The
> problem seems specific to your own set of Makefiles.
> 

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