I'm not really familiar with how translation files are generated, but the most obvious difference seems to be that 'ALL_LINGUAS' in the generated Makefile for 'po/' is empty (on OS X as well as on Ubuntu 12.10):
(based on the output of '(cd build/po; make -n install)', it also seems that the destination for the translation files would change from "$prefix/share/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES" to "$prefix/lib/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES", possibly requiring updates elsewhere, e.g. for packaging scripts?)
I'm not really familiar with how translation files are generated, but the most obvious difference seems to be that 'ALL_LINGUAS' in the generated Makefile for 'po/' is empty (on OS X as well as on Ubuntu 12.10):
$ grep 'ALL_LINGUAS =' build/po/Makefile
ALL_LINGUAS =
(based on the output of '(cd build/po; make -n install)', it also seems that the destination for the translation files would change from "$prefix/ share/locale/ $lang/LC_ MESSAGES" to "$prefix/ lib/locale/ $lang/LC_ MESSAGES" , possibly requiring updates elsewhere, e.g. for packaging scripts?)