Re: [PATCH 1/2] bootstrap: Break automake dependency on generated files. (was Re: Let’s translate!)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Julien Lepiller <address@hidden> skribis:

> This is a very good idea, but I think it leaves a stub texi that won't get 
> rebuilt because it's younger than po files. What if we add a toucgh 
> invocation to reset the modification time of these stubs, to ensure make will 
> want to rebuild them?

Also, I don’t actually use the ./bootstrap script.  :-)

Shouldn’t we instead replace the existing %.texi targets in doc/local.mk
with a phony target like ‘update-texi’, and then add:

  dist-hook: update-texi

?

This would be similar to the ‘update-po’ rule generated by Gettext in
po/.

Thanks,
Ludo’.