The rule in po/automake.mk for running msgmerge looks like this:
$(POFILES): $(POTFILE)
$(MSGMERGE) $(top_srcdir)/$* $< -o $@
I don't think this makes sense. This expands to:
po/en_GB.po po/nl.po po/pt_BR.po: po/pspp.pot
$(MSGMERGE) $(top_srcdir)/$* $< -o $@
which is an explicit rule, not an implicit rule. According to
the GNU make manual, $* expands like this in an explicit rule:
In an explicit rule, there is no stem; so `$*' cannot be determined
in that way. Instead, if the target name ends with a recognized
suffix (*note Old-Fashioned Suffix Rules: Suffix Rules.), `$*' is
set to the target name minus the suffix. For example, if the
target name is `foo.c', then `$*' is set to `foo', since `.c' is a
suffix. GNU `make' does this bizarre thing only for compatibility
with other implementations of `make'. You should generally avoid
using `$*' except in implicit rules or static pattern rules.
If the target name in an explicit rule does not end with a
recognized suffix, `$*' is set to the empty string for that rule.
so $* will either be something like po/en_GB or even the empty
string here. I've seen the former in some runs; I'm not sure
I've seen the latter. But neither one makes sense to me.
Also, POSIX says $< and $@ are defined only for implicit rules,
but I don't think that's the problem, since I think I've seen
problems here even with GNU make.
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