po-doc/ and LINGUAS

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:33:55 -0700
"Brian J. Tarricone" <brian at tarricone.org> wrote:

> On 08/20/2009 09:01 PM, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> 
> > I noticed the po-doc/ folder of Thunar has a Makefile.am written by
> > Daichi in 2006. I guess other components with po-doc/ have this
> > too. It contains the following line twice:
> > 
> >   langs=`sed -e '/^#/d' $(srcdir)/LINGUAS`; \
> > 
> > How do we want to treat those? Use @LINGUAS@ and make xdt-autogen
> > replace it with available languages? Or just copy the regular
> > expression used in xdt-autogen into these makefiles?
> 
> Hmm, not sure.  Maybe punt that for now until we figure out what we're
> doing with the docs?

Oh, riiiight, the docs. Another thing that needs to be taken care of
soon-ish.

> I think putting it in xdt-autogen is probably fine.  We could do
> something like:
> 
> if test -d po-doc; then
>   doc_linguas=`(cd po-doc && ls *.po 2>/dev/null | \
>     awk 'BEGIN { FS="."; ORS=" " } { print $1 }'`
> fi
> 
> ... and then include s/@DOC_LINGUAS@/$doc_linguas/g in the
> substitution.
> 
> The only slightly annoying bit is you'd need something like the
> following in configure.ac.in:
> 
> DOC_LINGUAS=@DOC_LINGUAS@
> AC_SUBST([DOC_LINGUAS])
> 
> ... and then you can use @DOC_LINGUAS@ or $(DOC_LINGUAS) in
> Makefile.am.
> 
> If you guys think that's a good idea, I'd be happy to put that in.

Yes, this sounds good but as you say, it's probably nothing for
xdt-autogen until we know how our future user docs look like.

  - Jannis
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