[Bug 1183262] Re: dh_translations looks for po/Makefile in source tree, fails with CMake when built out-of-source

[Brian Murray]

** Changed in: pkgbinarymangler (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  dh_translations looks for po/Makefile in source tree, fails with CMake
  when built out-of-source

Status in “pkgbinarymangler” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  If a package doesn’t use intltool to manage its translations, the
  build_pot() function of /usr/bin/dh_translations looks for
  po/Makefile, and if it exists it executes "make $domain.pot". This
  works for packages that ship a Makefile in the po directory, but if
  the Makefile is generated at build time (e.g. when using CMake) in a
  separate build directory (which is usually the case when building
  packages), then dh_translations fails to find po/Makefile, even though
  it exists in the build directory.

  Here is the relevant code:

      if ($use_intltool) {
          …
      } else {
          return unless -e 'po/Makefile';
      if ($domain) {
          # let the Makefile itself handle it
          @cmd=('make', $domain . '.pot');
      }

  @cmd should be passed an additional '-C', $builddir.

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