Re: gEDA-user: intltool version check

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 08:01 -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/zfrdh/gaf/libgeda/data'
> > LC_ALL=C ../intltool-merge -d -u -c ../po/.intltool-merge-cache ../po
> > x-geda-gsch2pcb-project.desktop.in x-geda-gsch2pcb-project.desktop
> > Possible unintended interpolation of @INTLTOOL_LIBDIR in string at
> > ../intltool-merge line 322.
> > Global symbol "@INTLTOOL_LIBDIR" requires explicit package name at
> > ../intltool-merge line 322.
> 
> This happened because there was a problem generating your configure
> script with automake or autoconf.   These are developer-only tools
> which you shouldn't need to worry about, unless you are building from
> git.  In that case, you're supposed to be able to resolve these
> developer-only issues.
> 
> Hmmmmm.....  Can intltool be off by default until it is more stable
> and works more reliably?   This will give folks who want it the
> opportunity to turn it on and play with it, while others won't need to
> fool with it.
> 
> Just my grumpy opinion......

Its causing more trouble than I'd expected.

Perhaps we can compromise.. developers could use it in a more manual way
to update translations for the .desktop files, and we ship those
pre-translated files as part of the dist-tarball.

Like "--enable-maintainer-mode", (but not).


Peter




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