Re: [bug-gettext] a .gmo file is not regenerated when its .po file changed

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Sat, May 30, 2015, at 12:26, Daiki Ueno wrote:
> Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> writes:
> > the content of the file does not need to be changed, and should therefore
> > not be changed, but the timestamp should be touched/updated so that make
> > (and humans) can see that things are up to date.
> 
> If you think so, could you consider providing a patch and maintaining it
> in gettext?

With the following inlined basic patch, things work the way I would
like.  Attached is a first attempt at a more complete patch.

Please shoot holes in it.  :)

Benno


--- a/gettext-runtime/po/Makefile.in.in
+++ b/gettext-runtime/po/Makefile.in.in
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
 
 all: address@hidden@
 
-all-yes: stamp-po
+all-yes: $(GMOFILES)
 all-no:
 
 # Ensure that the gettext macros and this Makefile.in.in are in sync.
@@ -431,6 +431,9 @@
        test "$(srcdir)" = . && cdcmd="" || cdcmd="cd $(srcdir) && "; \
        echo "$${cdcmd}$(MSGMERGE) $(MSGMERGE_OPTIONS) --lang=$$lang $$lang.po 
$(DOMAIN).pot -o $$lang.new.po"; \
        cd $(srcdir); \
+       if test $$lang.po -ot $(DOMAIN).pot; then \
+         touch $$lang.po; \
+       fi;
        if { case `$(MSGMERGE) --version | sed 1q | sed -e 's,^[^0-9]*,,'` in \
               '' | 0.[0-9] | 0.[0-9].* | 0.1[0-7] | 0.1[0-7].*) \
                 $(MSGMERGE) $(MSGMERGE_OPTIONS) -o $$tmpdir/$$lang.new.po 
$$lang.po $(DOMAIN).pot;; \

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