Re: NLS in Meson

On 2025-Sep-29, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> On 27.09.25 13:01, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> > While messing around with NLS under Make for commit [1], I noticed in the Ninja manual [2] that apparently calling
thei18n.gettext() function generates a few "hidden" targets -- most notably, things like <module>-update-po and
<module>-pottargets. These would presumably be used to build the POT and update the PO files fresh, using the source
files.
> 
> But these targets want to create the pot files in the source directory.

True, that's a bother.  Is this something that we could pester the Meson
people about?  Admittedly, our Make support for it is quite weird also,
what with it creating ".po.new" files.  That always struck me as odd.

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