other/2857: i18n, translations does not work

[Joseph S. Myers]

The following reply was made to PR other/2857; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
To: Philipp Thomas <pthomas@suse.de>
Cc: Dennis Bjorklund <db@zigo.dhs.org>, Zack Weinberg <zackw@Stanford.EDU>, 
    Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>, 
     <Gabriel.Dos-Reis@cmla.ens-cachan.fr>,  <gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org>, 
     <gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org>,  <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: other/2857: i18n, translations does not work
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 10:51:12 +0100 (BST)

 On Fri, 25 May 2001, Philipp Thomas wrote:
 
 > > Question: do the release scripts need to generate the compiled .gmo files?
 > > As those are binary, we surely don't want to put them in CVS.
 > 
 > Yes, they would need to do so, according to GNU standards, as the user
 > should not need to have the tools to create them.
 
 Since it looks like the Makefiles by default create catalogs in the build 
 directory, could you make the necessary changes - either to the release 
 script Mark posted, or to the Makefiles to build them in the source 
 directory instead - for them to be included in release tarballs?
 
 -- 
 Joseph S. Myers
 jsm28@cam.ac.uk