Re: Why does potfiles.list go in $(srcdir)?

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[email protected]> wrote Fri, Jul 04, 2008:
> Why does po/Makefile generate potfiles.list at all?  It seems to
> me that po/Makefile could just run find and pipe the resulting
> list to "xgettext -f-".  Does potfiles.list serve some purpose
> in dependency decisions or does it exist for debugging only?
> Could I move it from the source directory to the build directory,
> so that mkdist wouldn't have to explicitly delete it?

Looks like Zas added it. Maybe as a minor optiomization to not run
xgettext unless files has been changed. However, not caching the file
list sounds good to me.

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Jonas Fonseca