On 2025-Sep-29, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 27.09.25 13:01, Álvaro Herrera wrote: > > While messing around with NLS under Make for commit [1], I noticed in the > > Ninja manual [2] that apparently calling the i18n.gettext() function > > generates a few "hidden" targets -- most notably, things like > > <module>-update-po and <module>-pot targets. These would presumably be used > > to build the POT and update the PO files fresh, using the source files. > > But these targets want to create the pot files in the source directory.
True, that's a bother. Is this something that we could pester the Meson people about? Admittedly, our Make support for it is quite weird also, what with it creating ".po.new" files. That always struck me as odd. -- Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/ "You're _really_ hosed if the person doing the hiring doesn't understand relational systems: you end up with a whole raft of programmers, none of whom has had a Date with the clue stick." (Andrew Sullivan) https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
