New texinfo still breaks `make bootstrap`

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> Looks like another generated file which is "out of date" because
> CVS does not keep accurate timestamps.

Yup. Could you update the corresponding FAQ entry, please?

> Touch texinfo/po/texinfo.pot and let me know if that fixes the problem.

Yes and no. Now I get:

-------- another snip --------
Making all in po
gmake[3]: Entering directory
`/a/vexpert/files7/vol/swtest/egcs/SOURCETREE2/egcs/texinfo/po'
file=./`echo de | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
  && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH msgfmt -o $file de.po
usage: msgfmt [ -dv ] [ - ] [ name ... ]
./de.gmo: No such file or directory
gmake[3]: *** [de.gmo] Error 2
gmake[3]: Leaving directory
`/a/vexpert/files7/vol/swtest/egcs/SOURCETREE2/egcs/texinfo/po'
gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory
`/a/vexpert/files7/vol/swtest/egcs/SOURCETREE2/egcs/texinfo'
gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory
`/a/vexpert/files7/vol/swtest/egcs/SOURCETREE2/egcs/texinfo'
gmake: *** [all-texinfo] Error 2
-------- another snip --------

After `touch texinfo/po/{de,fr}.gmo` I've finally been able to continue
bootstrapping, but this is probably not the right-thing-to-do here... 

Gerald
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