* Richard W.M. Jones:
 Since these (*.gmo) files are built, shouldn't they in fact be
in
 builddir? 
But they are shipped with the tarballs. So, shouldn't they be built in
$(builddir)?
 The *.po files are generated during the build, but are really source
 files because (a) they go in the tarball and (b) they are modified by
 translators and the changes that the translators make are '.PRECIOUS'. 
Do you mean that the commands to rebuild the .po files always operate in
$(srcdir)?
-Hilko