On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 10:11:53PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote:
> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> 
> > I run out of ideas and my makefile debugging skills are limited.
> > 
> > Pavel, would you have an idea?
> >   - make distcheck works on 2.1, not 2.2
> >   - --disable-nls does not matter here
> >   - the Makefile.in.in is the same in both cases
> > - actually everything seems to be the same :(
> > 
> > The error happens because distcheck tries at some point to create
> > po/lyx.pot and the unpacked source tree has been marked as read-only.
> 
> This is just a shot in the dark, but when I try to compile from a fresh git 
> checkout with autotools, it updates all po and gmo files once, including 
> lyx.pot. This dos not happen anymore for any further compile, even if the 
> sources did change. Maybe there is no difference between 2.1 and 2.2, but it 
> is simply a matter of time stamps of the relevant files in the tar ball? 
> Maybe for 2.1 lyx.pot has a later timestamp than the files it depends on, 
> and for 2.2 this is not the case?

Interesting idea. In this case, a git bisect would be worthless so I
will wait before doing it. Is there a way to test your theory? If we use
'touch' to update a file and then try?

Scott

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