Re: [Monotone-devel] The everlasting release, compiling on Win32

[Stephen Leake]

Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:

> next problem: 
>
> /usr/bin/xgettext: cannot create output file "po/monotone.pot": No such file 
> or directory
> make[1]: *** [po/monotone.pot] Error 1
>
>
> manually doing 'mkdir po' lets it proceed. 
>
> The relevant Makefile fragments: from main:
>
> %.merged.po: $(srcdir)/po/%.po $(PACKAGE).pot
>       $(V_msgmerge)$(MSGMERGE) $^ -q -o $@
>
> from source-tree-cleanup:
>
> po/%.merged.po: $(srcdir)/po/%.po po/$(PACKAGE).pot
>       $(V_msgmerge)$(MSGMERGE) $^ -q -o $@
>
>
> So the po files are moved into a po subdir, but there is no rule to make
> the po subdir. I'm not clear the best way to add it.
>
> I get the same problem on MinGW and Cygwin.
>
> Does the Linux xgettext create subdirs?

The MinGW tests pass; Cygwin will take a few hours more.

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