Re: ALL_LINGUAS

[Keld Jřrn Simonsen <keld dkuug dk>]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 04:06:41PM +0100, Christian Rose wrote:
> ons 2003-01-22 klockan 15.46 skrev Tino Meinen:
> > Just curious,
> > When adding a new translation to a module in the po directory, 
> > 
> > whose responsibility is it to add the language to the ALL_LINGUAS list
> > in configure.in?
> 
> Usually the responsibility of the translator that added the po file.
> Pablo Saratxaga has been very nice in fixing missing language codes in
> the ALL_LINGUAS of many modules (thanks a lot!), though. But all
> translators should really make sure themselves that their own language
> code is present in ALL_LINGUAS.
> 
> So:
> ########################################################################
> When you add a new translation to a module and want the translation to
> be used, make sure you also add the language code of the translation to
> the ALL_LINGUAS line in the module's configure.in file. If you don't do
> that, the translation won't get picked up by the build system, and won't
> be used.
> ########################################################################

WHy is this necessary? Could the configure script not just look to see
which *.po files there are and use those? That woudl automate this
step.

Kind regards
keld