Hello Eric and all,
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 11:23:46AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
Attempts to do 'make install-html' fail with:
I worked around it while packaging sed for Cygwin by doing:
--- origsrc/sed-4.4/po/Makefile.in.in 2017-02-03 19:15:46.000000000 -0600
+++ src/sed-4.4/po/Makefile.in.in 2017-02-11 09:30:51.544239400 -0600
@@ -473,3 +473,5 @@ force:
# Tell versions [3.59,3.63) of GNU make not to export all variables.
# Otherwise a system limit (for SysV at least) may be exceeded.
.NOEXPORT:
+
+install-html:
so maybe that argues that the bootstrap process should tweak
po/Makefile.in.in and/or makevars in such a manner. I don't know if it
is a weakness of gettext in general that it's makefiles do not play
nicely with all of the usual supported targets.
Thanks for the fix.
I think 'po/Makefile.in.in' is not a checked-in file
(it's autogenerated during the bootstrapping process),
so this patch is good for the tarballs, but not for the git
repositories.
I do see that projects the use gnulib with non-recursive makefiles
include gnulib's 'non-recursive-gnulib-prefix-hack' module
and contain this in 'bootstrap.conf':
bootstrap_post_import_hook ()
{
...
# Massage lib/gnulib.mk before using it later in the bootstrapping
process.
build-aux/prefix-gnulib-mk --lib-name=$gnulib_name lib/$gnulib_mk
}
So perhaps that would be a good place to
patch Makefile.in.in as you suggested ?
regards,
- assaf
