On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 11:48:46AM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > Traverse the po-docs directory before the subdirectories with translated > documentations, so we can make sure that libguestfs-docs.pot and the > translated .pod files have been generated. As a consequence of that, > when generating the translated manpages for documentations, all the > needed .pod files should be already there. > --- > po-docs/Makefile.am | 6 +++++- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/po-docs/Makefile.am b/po-docs/Makefile.am > index a274898..bf10558 100644 > --- a/po-docs/Makefile.am > +++ b/po-docs/Makefile.am > @@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ CLEANFILES = po4a.conf > # language directory contains a Makefile.am that we need to keep up to > # date (note each $lang/Makefile.am should be identical). > # XXX Is there a better way? > -SUBDIRS = $(linguas) > +# The current directory is traversed first, to make sure that .pot and .pod > +# files are up-to-date and generated before applying translations in subdirs. > +SUBDIRS = . $(linguas) > > update-po: libguestfs-docs.pot > > @@ -88,3 +90,5 @@ podfiles: Makefile > for f in `cat $(top_srcdir)/po/POTFILES-pl`; do echo $(top_srcdir)/$$f; done >> $@-t > LC_ALL=C sort -o $@-t $@-t > mv $@-t $@ > + > +all-local: update-po This means the PO files are going to get rebuilt on every ordinary build.

On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 01:31:30PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > On Friday 02 October 2015 12:19:16 Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 11:48:46AM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > > > Traverse the po-docs directory before the subdirectories with translated > > > documentations, so we can make sure that libguestfs-docs.pot and the > > > translated .pod files have been generated. As a consequence of that, > > > when generating the translated manpages for documentations, all the > > > needed .pod files should be already there. > > > --- > > > po-docs/Makefile.am | 6 +++++- > > > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > > > diff --git a/po-docs/Makefile.am b/po-docs/Makefile.am > > > index a274898..bf10558 100644 > > > --- a/po-docs/Makefile.am > > > +++ b/po-docs/Makefile.am > > > @@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ CLEANFILES = po4a.conf > > > # language directory contains a Makefile.am that we need to keep up to > > > # date (note each $lang/Makefile.am should be identical). > > > # XXX Is there a better way? > > > -SUBDIRS = $(linguas) > > > +# The current directory is traversed first, to make sure that .pot and .pod > > > +# files are up-to-date and generated before applying translations in subdirs. > > > +SUBDIRS = . $(linguas) > > > > > > update-po: libguestfs-docs.pot > > > > > > @@ -88,3 +90,5 @@ podfiles: Makefile > > > for f in `cat $(top_srcdir)/po/POTFILES-pl`; do echo $(top_srcdir)/$$f; done >> $@-t > > > LC_ALL=C sort -o $@-t $@-t > > > mv $@-t $@ > > > + > > > +all-local: update-po > > > > This means the PO files are going to get rebuilt on every ordinary > > build. I meant the pot file, followed after that (because they depend on it) by the .po files.

> Where do you see .po files of documentation being rebuilt? (Note that > usually "building a .po file" implies its .po -> .mo conversion.) > If you refer to their conversion to .pod, well, the status quo is that > you get a nice > > *** > *** You need to run the following commands: > *** rm po-docs/podfiles; make -C po-docs update-po > *** After that, rerun make. > *** > > when make steps into the po-docs subdirs (currently ja and uk), > precisely because the .pod files in those directories are missing. This message is there for a good reason. When doing parallel builds it's impossible to safely run po4a -- see the comment which appears just above where the message gets printed.

What's the actual problem you're trying to fix with this commit?