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From: "Dan McMahill (dan AT mcmahill DOT net) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: [geda-user] pcb distcheck target fails from pcb-menu.res.h
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Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 23:20:21 -0500
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I tried to run 'make distcheck' on pcb master today and found that there 
seems to be some broken stuff in src/Makefile.am related to menu 
resource file translations.

One of the things 'make distcheck' does is to verify that you can build 
from outside the source tree with a read only source tree. 
pcb-menu.res.h gets generated and then we try to copy to $srcdir (this 
seems broken, we should not be writing back to $srcdir).  That of course 
fails but there is a hack in Makefile.am to get past that.  But the 
later on there are complaints that sub/src/pcb-menu.res.h and 
sub/src/gpcb-menu.res.h contain translations but weren't listed in 
POTFILES.in.  This is because what is listed in POTFILES.in is the 
*source* version, not the version which was generated in the build tree. 
  Are these .res.h files actually used?  It has been a few years since I 
last dug into the menu code.

Does anyone know if the menu translation stuff actually works?  Was the 
goal to have translations for the default menus?


-Dan