Comment 1 for bug 374303

Robert Collins wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> to reproduce:
> take a new branch # [important!]
> bzr branch lp:drizzle test
> config/autorun.sh
> mkdir ../build
> cd ../build
> ../test/configure
> make
> ...
> "No target to make 'all'. Stop" in po

Very Bizarre. I'm always doing vpath builds- although your assessment
here makes sense. I wonder what I'm doing to _not_ hit his problem.

> cause:
> AM_PO_SUBDIRS, defined in po.m4 looks for POTFILES.in in $(srcdir), but
> drizzle's configure creates it in $(builddir)
>
> solutions:
> fix AM_PO_SUBDIRS to look in both $(builddir) and $(srcdir) - best but
> will require some care to make sure system copies don't override;
> its not hard but I don't remember the exact aclocal details offhand

Yeah. I'll look in to this.

> stop creating POTFILES.in from configure - possibly easiest, but I don't
> know why you do this anyhow.

We generate it because of plugins... although now that you mention, I
think perhaps I should generate it as a part of register_plugins or
something. I'll look in to that, too.

> document that VPATH builds are not supported from bzr - worst

Absolutely unacceptable choice. We'll fix it one of the other ways.

> affects drizzle
> --
>
> ** Affects: drizzle
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>