Re: [RFC PATCH v4 00/19] Modernize the build system

> > I hadn't tried it. I did now, checking out origin/ps/build^ (to drop the
> > "seen" resolution topic), but it didn't work:
> > 
> >   $ meson setup build
> >   [...]
> >   Program msgfmt found: NO
> >   po/meson.build:3: WARNING: Gettext not found, all translation (po) targets will be ignored.
> > 
> >   po/meson.build:3:20: ERROR: Can not assign void to variable.
> > 
> > I guess the assignment of "translations" there needs to be made
> > conditional?
> 
> 
> Yeah, this is an interesting quirk. Many projects would tend to figure
> that translation (po) targets are "optional" because if you don't have
> msgfmt installed then you can just install the project without any
> translations and then non-English speakers will be inconvenienced but at
> least the entire project isn't completely un-buildable. So meson
> automatically disables the target and logs a warning, but then this
> project *also* wants to depend on the translations for the testsuite.
> 
> So this should be taken into account. Do the tests actually need
> translations, though?