po/Makefile.in expansion problem

[Luke Schierer]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 04:26:55PM +0200, Peter Speybrouck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to compile pidgin on SkyOS (actually only libpurple).
> All goes well until "Making all in po". Attached po.txt file shows the
> output when doing make, the last part (between entering and leaving
> directory po) keeps repeating.
> 
> I did some investigation but I'm not sure where to look.
> Sidenote, I have gettext 0.16 and intltool 0.33
> 
> The Makefile.in that gets generated still contains: ALL_LINGUAS =
> @ALL_LINGUAS@ while this should have been expanded to something like
> ALL_LINGUAS = af am ar az be at latin bg bn (and so on)...
> 
> some people on irc suggested issues with my gettext or intltool
> 
> I'm not sure that the ALL_LINGUAS issue is the cause of the looping
> during make but I have a feeling they might be related.
> 
> You can find the makefiles from the po directory attached.
> 
> If anyone wants more info or knows something I could check or verify,
> please let me know.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Peter

> make  all-recursive
> ...
> SNIP
> ...
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/boot/programs/factory/sources/pidgin-2.2.1/m4macros/'
> Making all in po
> make[2]: Entering directory `/boot/programs/factory/sources/pidgin-2.2.1/po/'
> cd .. \
>   && CONFIG_FILES=po/Makefile.in CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \
>        /bin/sh ./config.status
> config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
> config.status: executing depfiles commands
> config.status: executing intltool commands
> config.status: executing default-1 commands
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/boot/programs/factory/sources/pidgin-2.2.1/po/'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/boot/programs/factory/sources/pidgin-2.2.1/po/'
> cd .. \
>   && CONFIG_FILES=po/Makefile.in CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \
>        /bin/sh ./config.status
> config.status: creating po/Makefile.in
> config.status: executing depfiles commands
> config.status: executing intltool commands
> config.status: executing default-1 commands
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/boot/programs/factory/sources/pidgin-2.2.1/po/'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/boot/programs/factory/sources/pidgin-2.2.1/po/'
> cd .. \
>   && CONFIG_FILES=po/Makefile.in CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \
>        /bin/sh ./config.status
> make[2]: *** [stamp-it] Interrupt
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Interrupt
> make: *** [all] Interrupt

did you not run ./configure first?  Are you working with the version
from monotone, or a released tarball?

luke