Re: Bug#365727: update-po target in Makefile.in.in fails because of a small bug (fwd)

[Bruno Haible]

Daniel Leidert wrote:
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/packages/package/po'
> > tmpdir=`pwd`; \
> >     catalogs='de.gmo'; \
> >     for cat in $catalogs; do \
> >             cat=`basename $cat`; \
> >             lang=`echo $cat | sed 's/address@hidden@$//'`; \
> 
> Here is the issue. CATOBJEXT does not have a value. My configure.ac

CATOBJEXT is not used in GNU gettext's Makefile.in.in for more than
5 years, since version 0.10.36. You must be using version 0.10.35,
which is hopelessly outdated! Or where else did your po/Makefile.in.in
come from?

> for a package, where intltool is only used to translate a XML file. So I
> don't need the intl/ subdirectory and I call AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])

The GNU gettext manual documents a macro, AM_PO_SUBDIRS, for this case.
You don't need to check for the libintl library if all you need is the
tools for the po/ directory.

> USE_NLS=no

This conflicts with the GNU gettext macros. They define USE_NLS already,
to a value that depends whether --disable-nls has been specified.

Bruno