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Summary: po file update conflicts with autoconf conventions
Project: make
Submitted by: shaddybaddah
Submitted on: Fri 03/31/06 at 11:09
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Component Version: CVS
Platform Version: Any
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
As I know it, the convention for autoconf/automake builds is to follow these
steps at command line:
- make a build directory out of the $(srcdir)
- change directory to that build directory
- run the configure script by entering the correct path to it
- run make out of the build directory to build
- run make install out of the build directory to install
I understand that when using CVS, there are some additional bootstrapping
tasks before getting to this stage, and README.cvs indicates running
autoreconf -i in $(srcdir) to produce the configure script.
However, there is a further bootstrapping task after this, which is make
update, that updates the po files. This task, and the configure task in
between it are the subject of this report.
As per the "conventional" steps I specified about, I expect to do my
configure outside of $(srcdir). But there is no doubt for bootstrapping, a
configure "at least" needs to be done in $(srcdir) or else you cannot
bootstrap.
This isn't necessarily a bug... but IMO, it is a break with convention that
should be acknowledge somewhere, if not enhanced at some point.
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