Hi Bruno, On 04.05.19 14:44, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi Tim, > >> I am possible at the wrong ML now, but see the braking shell code as >> well in gnulib/build-aux/po/Makefile.in.in. > > CCing bug-gettext, since that is the more appropriate mailing list. > >> The make target '$(DOMAIN).pot-update:' contains this code: >> if test -f $(srcdir)/$(DOMAIN).pot; then \ >> sed -f remove-potcdate.sed < $(srcdir)/$(DOMAIN).pot > >> $(DOMAIN).1po && \ >> sed -f remove-potcdate.sed < $(DOMAIN).po > $(DOMAIN).2po && \ >> if cmp $(DOMAIN).1po $(DOMAIN).2po >/dev/null 2>&1; then \ >> rm -f $(DOMAIN).1po $(DOMAIN).2po $(DOMAIN).po; \ >> else \ >> rm -f $(DOMAIN).1po $(DOMAIN).2po $(srcdir)/$(DOMAIN).pot && \ >> mv $(DOMAIN).po $(srcdir)/$(DOMAIN).pot; \ >> fi; \ >> else \ >> mv $(DOMAIN).po $(srcdir)/$(DOMAIN).pot; \ >> fi; \ >> >> In a vpath build (using the configure script outside the main project >> directory), the line >> rm -f $(DOMAIN).1po $(DOMAIN).2po $(srcdir)/$(DOMAIN).pot >> is triggered and thus breaks 'make distcheck'. >> >> This due to all files in $(srcdir) are read-only. > > That piece of Makefile code is careful to not touch $(srcdir)/$(DOMAIN).pot > if $(DOMAIN).1po $(DOMAIN).2po are the same. They are generated through > > sed -f remove-potcdate.sed < $(srcdir)/$(DOMAIN).pot > > $(DOMAIN).1po && \ > sed -f remove-potcdate.sed < $(DOMAIN).po > $(DOMAIN).2po && \ > > To investigate the cause of this failure, compare the files > wget.po and $(srcdir)/wget.po. They ought to differ only in the > POT-Creation-Date > line.
That's indeed a good hint... $ diff wget.po ../../../po/wget.pot 3c3 < # This file is distributed under the same license as the wget package. --- > # This file is distributed under the same license as the GNU wget package. 9c9 < "Project-Id-Version: wget 1.20.3.13-ee7fe-dirty\n" --- > "Project-Id-Version: GNU wget 1.20.3.13-ee7fe-dirty\n" 11c11 < "POT-Creation-Date: 2019-05-04 15:31+0200\n" --- > "POT-Creation-Date: 2019-05-04 15:29+0200\n" Since "GNU" is correct here, I wonder why is vanishes... Regards, Tim
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