Re: .Po / .Plo Question

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Asim" == Asim Suter <address@hidden> writes:

Asim> 1) Which tool/script/program generates .Po/.Plo files ? And at what
Asim> stage ?

They are initially created, as empty files, by configure when building
the various Makefiles.

Then, they are updated as a side effect of compilation.

Asim> 2) While rebuilding I see sometimes .Po files get "bad" in that
Asim>     they get malformed somehow for which gmake croaks and bails out.
Asim>     For instance:
Asim>    a) .deps/libcryptotool_a-sig_verify.Po:1: *** target pattern contains
Asim> no `%'.  Stop.
Asim>    b) Missing separator in file..

I haven't seen this before.  What platform are you on?  What version
of make are you using?  What compiler?  Could you send the contents of
that file?

Tom