IIRC, in autotools we had a rule, so that after the change of a .po file, the associated .mo file was regenerated by msgfmt. A multiple of the time, which is saved by the use of ninja, is consumed by the current requirement to rerun cmake at least for translators. As I still have not read all the details of cmake, here are a few pointers to solve the issue: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/FindGettext.html#module:FindGettext https://github.com/jarro2783/CMake-Gettext/
Looking at the cmake configuration it seems we still have similar build rules. The build rule now is (depending on whether you configure for make or ninja): make po-gmo or ninja po-gmo ninja is sometimes installed as ninja-build so depending on your platform this could also be ninja-build po-gmo This will update all mo files for which the po file had changed. The updated po files will be avaialable in <build-dir>/po However if you also want them to be installed in a way that you can run gnucash from the build directory using updated po files, there's a second target: make po-gmo-build (or replace make with ninja/ninja-build as needed) Is this what you are looking for ?
Turns out there was a dependency issue with these commands after all. I have pushed a fix. Can you try if this now does what you want ?
Frank, are you happy with Geert's change? It's been over a year and a half.
Oops, totally I had forgotten, but right as I worked on Bug 798104, I had not to run cmake. The confusing part: The normal ninja call didn't report, that it had rebuild da.mo. But in 'ninja install' was: Installing: /usr/local/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gnucash.mo Soo, yes, I have less work.
