[Gnash-dev] Re: distcheck issues

[strk]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:29:28AM +0200, strk wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 03:56:11PM -0600, Rob Savoye wrote:
> > strk wrote:
> > >On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 01:13:54PM -0600, Cron Daemon wrote:
> > >
> > >>ERROR: files left in build directory after distclean:
> > >>./po/cs.gmo
> > >>./po/it.gmo
> > >>./po/fi.gmo
> > >>./po/fr.gmo
> > >>./po/de.gmo
> > >>./po/ja.gmo
> > >>./po/sv.gmo
> > >>./po/es.gmo
> > >
> > >So, what was the policy here ?
> > >Are .gmo things we need to distribute ?
> > 
> >   Yes, but as they are generated files, make clean should get rid of them.
> 
> mm.. I'm not convinced. If we distribute them, we shouldn't drop on 'clean'
> nor on 'distclean', but would be fine on 'maintainer-clean'.
> 
> Maybe the problem is that those files should NOT be in the *build*
> directory (wouldn't be there if we'd distribute).

Another note: distcheck works on my machine, so must be
something dependent on msgfmt or similar availability.

--strk;