Follow-up: gettextized (0.11.2) yields same result (package compilation fails for missing ../po/config.status ?)

[Rapp, Perry]

I noticed that 0.11.3-pre2 is no longer on the alpha ftp server,
so I changed my system to 0.11.2 (which is), and gettextized
(my 0.10.40 version), and the outcome was the same.


...

make[2]: Entering directory
`/home/prapp/ll/lifelines.test.gettextize.0.11.2/build/intl'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/prapp/ll/lifelines.test.gettextize.0.11.2/build/intl'
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory
`/home/prapp/ll/lifelines.test.gettextize.0.11.2/build/po'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/config.status', needed by
`Makefile'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/prapp/ll/lifelines.test.gettextize.0.11.2/build/po'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/prapp/ll/lifelines.test.gettextize.0.11.2/build'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2



NB: That looks like $(top_builddir) is empty, to give '/config.status'.

My root Makefile has it set to dot, it appears

$cd ..
$ grep top_builddir *
Makefile:top_builddir = .
Makefile:Makefile: $(srcdir)/Makefile.in  $(top_builddir)/config.status
$(BUILT_SOURCES)
Makefile:       cd $(top_builddir) \
Makefile:stamp-h: $(srcdir)/config.h.in $(top_builddir)/config.status
Makefile:       cd $(top_builddir) \
Makefile:       here=`cd $(top_builddir) && pwd`; \ 


Several other subdirectories compile successfully before it gets to the
intl & po
subdirectories. It looks to me like the other Makefiles set the variable
themselves, eg,

intl/Makefile:top_builddir = ..


but the one in the po subdirectory doesn't set it:

$ grep top_builddir po/*
po/Makefile:mkinstalldirs = $(SHELL) `case "$(MKINSTALLDIRS)" in /*)
echo "$(MKINSTALLDIRS
)" ;; *) echo "$(top_builddir)/$(MKINSTALLDIRS)" ;; esac`
po/Makefile:distdir = $(top_builddir)/$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION)/$(subdir)
po/Makefile:Makefile: Makefile.in.in $(top_builddir)/config.status
POTFILES.in
po/Makefile:    cd $(top_builddir) \
po/Makefile.in:mkinstalldirs = $(SHELL) `case "$(MKINSTALLDIRS)" in /*)
echo "$(MKINSTALLD
IRS)" ;; *) echo "$(top_builddir)/$(MKINSTALLDIRS)" ;; esac`
po/Makefile.in:distdir = $(top_builddir)/$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION)/$(subdir)
po/Makefile.in:Makefile: Makefile.in.in $(top_builddir)/config.status
POTFILES.in
po/Makefile.in: cd $(top_builddir) \