automake makes it impossible to freely choose po directory name

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

GNU gettext allows to use multiple po/ directories within a single package,
for example foo/po/ and bar/po/, with a single intl/ directory. But
automake 1.7.2 gives an unjustified error message

        AM_GNU_GETTEXT used but `po' not in SUBDIRS

in this case. To reproduce: Unpack mpgtt-0.0.1.tar.gz, then
    $ touch aclocal.m4
    $ ./configure
    $ make
    cd . && /bin/sh /packages/gettext/mpgtt-0.0.1/admin/missing --run 
aclocal-1.7 -I m4
    cd . && \
      /bin/sh /packages/gettext/mpgtt-0.0.1/admin/missing --run automake-1.7 
--foreign  Makefile
    Makefile.am:1: AM_GNU_GETTEXT used but `po' not in SUBDIRS
    make: *** [Makefile.in] Fehler 1

Suggestion: Omit this error message if there is no po/ directory at the top
level of the package. The most likely cause is that the programmer wants
to have multiple po/ directories in subdirectories, or that he names his
directories differently.

Bruno

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