[Bug 1117944] Re: intltool confused by separate build-dir

[Vlad Orlov]

Well, intltool is still needed for various projects which didn't migrate
to gettext yet.

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Title:
  intltool confused by separate build-dir

Status in intltool:
  Confirmed
Status in intltool package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  systemd uses 'intltool-update -m' from intltoolize in its 'make check'.
  $(top_srcdir)/po/POTFILES.skip contains the name of a generated file (src/core/org.freedesktop.systemd1.policy.in), which will be generated as $(top_builddir)/src/core/org.freedesktop.systemd1.policy.in. If $(builddir)==$(srcdir) than everything works fine. When they are different, there's no way to instruct intltool-update to skip the file. Since the name of the build directory is not known and can be arbitrary, there should be a way to instruct intltool-update to ignore files relative to the $(top_builddir), or something like that. One option would be to turn the file list into a list of globs (**/src/core/org.freedesktop.systemd1.policy.in would work perfectly in our case).

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