Re: makefile improvements

[John Darrington]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 08:56:08AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:

     >   $(POFILES): $(POTFILE)
     >  $(MSGMERGE) $(top_srcdir)/$@ $(top_srcdir)/$(POTFILE) -o $@
     >
     > $(POTFILE) is a generated file, so it will be in $(top_builddir) not 
     > $(top_srcdir).
     
     I hadn't realize that.
     
     When we make a distribution with "make dist", $(POTFILE) will be
     distributed and thus it will be in the source directory.  Does
     this mean that we have to cope with both possible locations?

Is that something we can change?  Do we really need pspp.pot to be in
the tarball?  If not, then I guess we will indeed have to cope with
both locations.  And that is of course why the VPATH feature and the
$< variable was invented.

J'
     

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