Am Freitag, 23. Februar 2018 11:24:17 CET schrieb Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org>: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > There is something mysterious and really annoying in the reasons why > > autotools decide that po/gmo files should be rebuilt. Sometimes it does > > not > > make sense. > > > > Do you have hints? > > There are corner cases which I do not understand either and I always > thought that is has smt to do with the unusual .in.in -> .in > makefile cascade. But this particular case does not seem mysterious > to me. Clean tree does not have lyx.pot and makefile wants to have it. > > Pavel
That does still not explain the recreation of .po files. Cmake build creates everything in the build-tree only. Only if desired (e.g. with targets 'layouttranslation1' or 'update-gmo') also the source tree is affected. And here only the really changed files. Kornel