My guess is that the ./vice.pot target can run before the Makefile target, which regenerates and reinvokes itself, having populated $(POTFILES) with ../src/arch/win32/res.rc.po.c and so on...
I've been unable to reproduce the issue seen on the buildds despite many repetitions and different values for -j. It's obviously rare as it built on 12 arches first time around. So I have no way to test it, but the following might work: --- po/Makefile.orig 2013-10-07 01:04:20.718274652 +0100 +++ po/Makefile 2013-10-07 00:56:12.524325238 +0100 @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ all-yes: cat-id-tbl.c $(CATALOGS) all-no: -$(builddir)/$(PACKAGE).pot: Makefile $(POTFILES) +$(builddir)/$(PACKAGE).pot: $(POTFILES) $(XGETTEXT) --default-domain=$(PACKAGE) --directory=$(top_srcdir) --directory=$(top_builddir) \ --add-comments --keyword=_ --keyword=N_ \ --files-from=$(srcdir)/POTFILES.in \ Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org