[Freeciv-Dev] Re: gettext 0.10.37

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 20 May 2001, gs234@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2001, thue@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> Ok, this is what happens. aclocal.m4 says 
>>     dnl intl/plural.c is generated from intl/plural.y. It requires
>>     bison, dnl because plural.y uses bison specific features. It
>>     requires at least dnl bison-1.26 because earlier versions
>>     generate a plural.c that doesn't dnl compile.  dnl bison is
>>     only needed for the maintainer (who touches plural.y). But in
>>     dnl order to avoid separate Makefiles or
>>     --enable-maintainer-mode, we put dnl the rule in general
>>     Makefile. Now, some people carelessly touch the dnl files or
>>     have a broken "make" program, hence the plural.c rule will dnl
>>     sometimes fire. To avoid an error, defines BISON to ":" if it
>>     is not dnl present or too old.
> 
>> This is ok, just require us to generate plural.c once.  What is
>> less fortunate is that make distclean removes the file plural.c.
>> Since I think people "make distclean" once in a while people will
>> meet this problem, and so it would be nice if the build didn't
>> fail.

As far as I can see, the distclean target in the intl/ directory is a
no-op in Freeciv.

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