Re: missing top_builddir in po/Makefile.in.in template

[Bruno Haible]

Oliver Niekrenz wrote:
> I'm just diving into the depths of i18n and stumbled across gettext (btw:
> great stuff).
> I followed the guidelines in your manual pages, gettextized my project and
> set up the missing files. Nevertheless 'make' produced an error:
> Making all in po
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/niekrenz/scheduler/build/po'
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/config.status', needed by
> `Makefile'.  Stop.
>
> Inspecting /usr/share/gettext/po/Makefile.in.in I found out why,
> top_builddir is used but was not set. A line 'top_builddir =
> @top_builddir@' quickly solved it.

Usually this occurs after you've run 'gettextize' and did not create
a file po/Makevars. gettextize puts a file 'Makevars.template' in the
directory; the developer is supposed to fill it in and then rename it to
'Makevars'.

Bruno