[bt-devel] PDFs and other object files in source tarballs

[Jonathan Marsden]

Martin Gruner wrote:

> I removed the .qm files from the source tree. They are now automatically 
> created when building BibleTime. Let me know if this works for you.

Thanks.  See my email discussion with Eeli -- the *.qm files are now
automatically created during the build (during every build, regardless
of whether they were just built a minute ago, and they are created in
the build/ dir not where they used to be -- but at least they do
build!).  That works.

However, there seems to be "strangeness" in the way the make logic works
that I can't understand (yet).  I'd call it a bug, except that I might
just not be understanding how things are *supposed* to work!

In particular, using an updated svn tree, I am finding that:

  make                             # Build and test-install BibleTime
  find . -name "*.qm" | xargs rm   # Remove qm files
  cd build && make messages        # Attempt to recreate the qm files

does not actually recreate the qm files, and I am not sure why.  Perhaps
you guys will force me to learn cmake, if this continues :)

Jonathan