* Detect old versions of xgettext and avoid using them.

debian/changelog

@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ ikiwiki (1.44) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     to fragile to let it kill ikiwiki.
   * Make img plugin not fail immediately if Image::Magick is not available.
     This lets ikiwiki not build depend on perlmagic.
+  * Detect old versions of xgettext and avoid using them.
 
- -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:12:25 -0500
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:02:17 -0500
 
 ikiwiki (1.43) unstable; urgency=low
 

doc/bugs/xgettext_issue.mdwn

@@ -67,3 +67,7 @@ make: *** [extra_build] Error 2
 
 >>>>>> Other than installing a newer version of `gettext` from outside of the repos, is there any workaround?  
 
+>>>>>>> It's probably because you're pulling it from svn, and I don't
+>>>>>>> always update the pot file every time I commit to svn. So this will
+>>>>>>> affect svn checkouts, but not released tarballs. Anyway, I put in a
+>>>>>>> workaround.. [[bugs/done]] --[[Joey]]

po/Makefile

@@ -15,8 +15,10 @@ install: all
 	done
 
 ikiwiki.pot: $(POTFILES)
-	@echo "Rebuilding the pot file"
-	xgettext $(POTFILES) -o ikiwiki.pot -Lperl --add-comments=translators
+	@if perl -e '($$ver)=`xgettext -V | head -n 1`=~/.*\s+([0-9]+\.[0-9]+)/; die "gettext $$ver too old, not updating the pot file\n" if $$ver < 0.16'; then \
+		echo "Rebuilding the pot file"; \
+		xgettext $(POTFILES) -o ikiwiki.pot -Lperl --add-comments=translators; \
+	fi
 
 clean:
 	rm -f $(MOFILES) messages messages.mo

po/ikiwiki.pot

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ msgid ""
 msgstr ""
 "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
 "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2007-02-19 22:59-0500\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2007-02-19 23:10-0500\n"
 "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
 "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
 "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"