potfile missing?

[<nuke bayside net>]

i know this has been posted before, but it's still happening.

make
cd . && autoheader
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/gnome-libs'
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/gnome-libs/po'
PATH=../src:$PATH : --default-domain=gnome-libs --directory=.. \
  --add-comments --keyword=_ --keyword=N_ \
  --files-from=./POTFILES.in
rm -f ./gnome-libs.pot
mv gnome-libs.po ./gnome-libs.pot
mv: gnome-libs.po: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [gnome-libs.pot] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gnome-libs/po'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gnome-libs'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

this is right out of the CVS tree
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