When po/xz.pot doesn't exist, running "make" or "make dist" will
create it. Then the .po files will be updated but only if they
actually would change more than the POT-Creation-Date line.
Then the .gmo files would be generated from the .po files.
This is the case before and after this commit.
However, "make dist" and thus "make mydist" did a forced update
to the files, updating them even if the only change was the
POT-Creation-Date line. This had pros and cons: It made it clear
that the .po file really is in sync with the recent strings in
the package. On the other hand, it added noise in form of changed
files in the source tree and distribution tarballs. It can be
ignored with something like "diff -I'^"POT-Creation-Date: '" but
it's still a minor annoyance *if* there's not enough value in
having the most recent timestamp.
Setting DIST_DEPENDS_ON_UPDATE_PO = no means that such forced
update won't happen in "make dist" anymore. However, the "mydist"
target will use xz.pot-update target which is the same target that
is run when xz.pot doesn't exist at all yet. Thus "mydist" will
ensure that the translations are up to date, without noise from
changes that would affect only the POT-Creation-Date line.
Note that po4a always uses msgmerge with --update, so POT-Creation-Date
in the man page translations is never the only change in .po files.
In that sense this commit makes the message translations behave more
similarly to the man page translations.
Distribution tarballs will still have non-reproducible POT-Creation-Date
in po/xz.pot and po4a/xz-man.pot but those are just two files. Even they
could be made reproducible from a Git timestamp if desired.
(cherry picked from commit 9284f1aea3)
This was supposed to be done in 2020 with 5.2.5 release
already but it was noticed only today. 5.2.5 and 5.2.6
even mention experiemental CMake support in the NEWS entries.
Thanks to Olivier B. for reporting the problem.
The dependency on po4a is optional. It's never required to install
the translated man pages when xz is built from a release tarball.
If po4a is missing when building from xz.git, the translated man
pages won't be generated but otherwise the build will work normally.
The translations are only updated automatically by autogen.sh and
by "make mydist". This makes it easy to keep po4a as an optional
dependency and ensures that I won't forget to put updated
translations to a release tarball.
The translated man pages aren't installed if --disable-nls is used.
The installation of translated man pages abuses Automake internals
by calling "install-man" with redefined dist_man_MANS and man_MANS.
This makes the hairy script code slightly less hairy. If it breaks
some day, this code needs to be fixed; don't blame Automake developers.
Also, this adds more quotes to the existing shell script code in
the Makefile.am "-hook"s.
Symbol versioning is enabled by default on GNU/Linux,
other GNU-based systems, and FreeBSD.
I'm not sure how stable this is, so it may need
backward-incompatible changes before the next release.
The idea is that alpha and beta symbols are considered
unstable and require recompiling the applications that
use those symbols. Once a symbol is stable, it may get
extended with new features in ways that don't break
compatibility with older ABI & API.
The mydist target runs validate_map.sh which should
catch some probable problems in liblzma.map. Otherwise
I would forget to update the map file for new releases.
The example programs by Daniel Mealha Cabrita were included
in the git repository, but I had forgot to add them to
Makefile.am. Thus, they didn't get included in the source
package at all by "make dist".
Installation and packaging instructions were added.
README and other generic docs were revised.
Some of the documentation files are now installed to $docdir.
once we have a stable release (won't be very soon). The
version number is no longer related to version of LZMA SDK.
Made some small Automake-related changes to toplevel
Makefile.am and configure.ac.
Lasse Collin