gettext: Makefile
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1 13.4.11 ‘Makefile.in’ at top level
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1 Here are a few modifications you need to make to your main, top-level
1 ‘Makefile.in’ file.
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1 1. Add the following lines near the beginning of your ‘Makefile.in’,
1 so the ‘dist:’ goal will work properly (as explained further down):
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1 PACKAGE = @PACKAGE@
1 VERSION = @VERSION@
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1 2. Add file ‘ABOUT-NLS’ to the ‘DISTFILES’ definition, so the file
1 gets distributed.
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1 3. Wherever you process subdirectories in your ‘Makefile.in’, be sure
1 you also process the subdirectories ‘intl’ and ‘po’. Special rules
1 in the ‘Makefiles’ take care for the case where no
1 internationalization is wanted.
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1 If you are using Makefiles, either generated by automake, or
1 hand-written so they carefully follow the GNU coding standards, the
1 effected goals for which the new subdirectories must be handled
1 include ‘installdirs’, ‘install’, ‘uninstall’, ‘clean’,
1 ‘distclean’.
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1 Here is an example of a canonical order of processing. In this
1 example, we also define ‘SUBDIRS’ in ‘Makefile.in’ for it to be
1 further used in the ‘dist:’ goal.
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1 SUBDIRS = doc intl lib src po
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1 Note that you must arrange for ‘make’ to descend into the ‘intl’
1 directory before descending into other directories containing code
1 which make use of the ‘libintl.h’ header file. For this reason,
1 here we mention ‘intl’ before ‘lib’ and ‘src’.
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1 4. A delicate point is the ‘dist:’ goal, as both ‘intl/Makefile’ and
1 ‘po/Makefile’ will later assume that the proper directory has been
1 set up from the main ‘Makefile’. Here is an example at what the
1 ‘dist:’ goal might look like:
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1 distdir = $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION)
1 dist: Makefile
1 rm -fr $(distdir)
1 mkdir $(distdir)
1 chmod 777 $(distdir)
1 for file in $(DISTFILES); do \
1 ln $$file $(distdir) 2>/dev/null || cp -p $$file $(distdir); \
1 done
1 for subdir in $(SUBDIRS); do \
1 mkdir $(distdir)/$$subdir || exit 1; \
1 chmod 777 $(distdir)/$$subdir; \
1 (cd $$subdir && $(MAKE) $@) || exit 1; \
1 done
1 tar chozf $(distdir).tar.gz $(distdir)
1 rm -fr $(distdir)
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1 Note that if you are using GNU ‘automake’, ‘Makefile.in’ is
1 automatically generated from ‘Makefile.am’, and all needed changes to
1 ‘Makefile.am’ are already made by running ‘gettextize’.
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