Re: Bug#538150: gettext: autopoint does not see additional po/ directories (fwd)

[Bruno Haible]

Hello,

Guillem Jover wrote:
> In dpkg we have several domains, and thus several po/ directories in
> the source tree. We (try) not to keep autogenerated files in git

This situation is supported by the GNU gettext + autotools toolchain.

> getttextize used to support more than one podir

No, gettextize always only supported one podir. But gettextize is only
the tool for migrating from one gettext version to the next. A package
maintainer can get away without it, with a bit of handwork, following
the GNU gettext documentation.

> it would be nice to get similar support for autopoint.

Autopoint supports and always supported multiple podirs under the
same configure.ac. If you have subpackages with separate configure.acs,
I believe that you need to invoke autopoint in each of them.
(It's not recursively processing subpackages. Like
"autoreconf --no-recursive".)

> Another problem is that we have to manually copy the Makefile.in.in (and
> friends) whenever we've autoreconfed with a newer getttext version.

You can use "AUTOPOINT=: autoreconf" to avoid running autopoint as part
of autoreconf, and run autopoint afterwards separately.

Bruno