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Re: [bug-gv] gv-i18n.h both shipped and cleaned


From: Bernhard R. Link
Subject: Re: [bug-gv] gv-i18n.h both shipped and cleaned
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 17:07:10 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

* Markus Steinborn <address@hidden> [100603 14:28]:
> GNU gv should not require perl to compile - so I shipped "src/gv-i18n.h"
> within the tarball. And it's true, you can you GNU gv "without
> gv-update-userconfig", so there is no real "perl" dependency, only a
> recommendation to have perl installed (because it's useful in this
> context).

Well, the user will need perl once they call clean, as it then has to
be regenerated.
If it's something someone working from the .tar.gz with minimal build
dependencies should not need to rebuilt (assuming no files are changed),
then it is rather a task for maintainer-clean (i.e.  MAINTAINERCLEANFILES).

> Adding it to CLEANFILES is questionable: The idea is to have a
> convenient way to force recreation of that file if
> adding/removing/updating translations. May I ask for alternative ideas?

Well, the dependencies of that file already force recreation if anything
in the nls directory changes (which is already quite a almost too easy
triggering condition).

        Bernhard R. Link
-- 
"Never contain programs so few bugs, as when no debugging tools are available!"
        Niklaus Wirth



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