intltool

  1. Bug #605826
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 605826

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Claudio Saavedra (csaavedra) wrote :

II can reproduce this with the following Makefile.am (extract) under $(srcdir)/plugins:

AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = subdir-objects

plugins_PYTHON = \
 pyhello/pyhello.py

%.eog-plugin: %.eog-plugin.desktop.in $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(wildcard $(top_srcdir)/po/*po) ; $(AM_V_GEN)$(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(top_srcdir)/po $< $@ -d -u -c $(top_builddir)/po/.intltool-merge-cache

Since pyhello.py doesn't generate any file during build time, no one creates $(builddir)/plugins/pyhello, and intltool-merge dies.

Basically, this happens because of the usage of intltool-merge when Makefile.am is in a parent directory of the location of the desktop file.