Re: intltool rule patch

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:12:30PM -0500, jacob berkman wrote:
>  
> -  INTLTOOL_DESKTOP_RULE='%.desktop:   %.desktop.in   $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(wildcard $(top_srcdir)/po/*.po) ; $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(top_srcdir)/po $< [$]@ -d -u -c $(top_builddir)/po/.intltool-merge-cache'
> +  INTLTOOL_DESKTOP_RULE='%.desktop:   %.desktop.in   ; $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(wildcard $(top_srcdir)/po/*.po) ; $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(top_srcdir)/po $< [$]@ -d -u -c $(top_builddir)/po/.intltool-merge-cache'

Ok so you are proposing to replace piles of

    %.a : %.b    commands
with
    %.a : %.b  ; commands

That is correct for gmake, but I don't know how portable it is.
The existing rules are not terribly portable though.  Why use
$(wildcard) ? The command is run in a shell.  Just use the builtin
wildcarding.

eg
INTLTOOL_DESKTOP_RULE='%.desktop:   %.desktop.in   ; $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(top_srcdir)/po/*.po ; $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(top_srcdir)/po $< [$]@ -d -u -c $(top_builddir)/po/.intltool-merge-cache'