The po/Makefile.in.in shipped with gettext 0.19 has added POFILESDEPS_ = $(srcdir)/$(DOMAIN).pot POFILESDEPS_yes = $(POFILESDEPS_) POFILESDEPS_no = POFILESDEPS = $(POFILESDEPS_$(PO_DEPENDS_ON_POT)) [...] $(POFILES): $(POFILESDEPS)
I wonder what the point of PO_DEPENDS_ON_POT is, since the variable isn't defined anywhere. Unfortunately the construct above triggers a bug in FreeBSD 9's make(1) that causes it to error out with Error expanding embedded variable. This bug is fixed in FreeBSD 10+. As the 0.19 version of po/Makefile.in.in spreads into the wild, I expect this problem to come up again and again. For instance, I ran into it with GNU cpio 2.12. -------------------- For those curious, here's a minimal Makefile to reproduce the FreeBSD bug. Yes, the dependency is required: FOO = BAR = $(FOO$(BAZ)) all: $(BAR) -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
