config.status: error: cannot find input file: `po/Makefile.in.in'

[Kip Warner]

Hey list,

I have my message catalogues in a directory in my project other than in
the usual po/. I ran gettextize --po-dir=folder. I also updated
Makevars's subdir to point to the new directory. The SUBDIRS variable in
my Makefile.am also points to the right location.

However, the error I am receiving when I run ./configure is the
following, despite po/ not existing:

config.status: error: cannot find input file:
`po/Makefile.in.in'

Any help appreciated.

[Gavin Smith]

Post by Kip Warner
Hey list,
I have my message catalogues in a directory in my project other than in
the usual po/. I ran gettextize --po-dir=folder. I also updated
Makevars's subdir to point to the new directory. The SUBDIRS variable in
my Makefile.am also points to the right location.
However, the error I am receiving when I run ./configure is the
`po/Makefile.in.in'
Any help appreciated.

Do you still have a reference to "po" in configure.ac? Sections 13.4
and 13.4.5 in the gettext manual look relevant to your problem.

[Kip Warner]

Post by Gavin Smith
Do you still have a reference to "po" in configure.ac? Sections 13.4
and 13.4.5 in the gettext manual look relevant to your problem.

Hey Gavin. I already went through the manual, but I'm guessing I must
have missed something. Indeed, I had. I just found the problem was in a
side effect gettextize left in configure.ac in AC_CONFIG_FILES which
pointed to the dead po/. I missed that the first time I went through it,
but thanks for bringing that to my attention.

But back to the manual, I see there's a lot of things that need to be
modified all over the place in an autotooled project to use gettext, but
one thing I wasn't sure of was how much of it still needs to be done
manually after gettextize has managed to gettext'ify the project?