Gettext and distcheck failure [Was: Re: [Patch] Integrating Jitter as a sub-package in Poke: first iteration]

[Luca Saiu]

On 2019-09-15 at 20:34 +0200, Luca Saiu wrote:

> In any case Poke's test suite passes with no failures.

But, I have just noticed, distcheck fails because of something related
to gettext.  This is unrelated to the Jitter change.

From different build directories, in one case with configure.ac modified
to use AC_JITTER and Makefile.am not to have jitter in SUBS:

(./configure --prefix=/tmp/poke-prefix CFLAGS='-Werror' && make && make 
distcheck) &> /tmp/DISTCHECK-DEPENDENCY
(../configure --prefix=/tmp/poke-prefix CFLAGS='-Werror' && make && make 
distcheck) &> /tmp/DISTCHECK-SUBPACKAGE

In either case, I get this at the end:

config.status: error: cannot find input file: `po/Makefile.in.in'

The problem seems to be the argument to AC_CONFIG_FILES:

AC_CONFIG_FILES(Makefile
                lib/Makefile
                src/Makefile
                pickles/Makefile
                doc/Makefile
                po/Makefile.in
                testsuite/Makefile)

I am not at all familiar with the interactions between Gettext and the
Autotools, but I see "po/Makefile.in.in" mentioned in the Gettext
manual.  Maybe you just forgot to distribute some file.

Regards,

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