Re: Make .gmo files for distributions.

Andrew Cagney
2001-11-20T19:07:38Z

> Hi Guys,
>
> Any objections to the following patch ? It adds code to the
> do-proto-toplev target to build *.gmo files from their respective
> .po files as part of a distribution.
>
> I was prompted to make this change because of an email from Bruno
> Haible, the GNU gettext maintainer:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-gnu-utils/2001-11/msg00130.html
>
> He points out that not all hosts have the gettext utilities
> installed, and so they cannot be expected to build the .gmo files if
> they are not present in a distribution.

Yes please. I'm wondering, though, why it doesn't happen anyway?

Andrew