Fix: #2469: Ignore updates of catalog files for gettext builder. Thanks to Hiroshi Ohkubo.

CHANGES

@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ Bugs fixed
 * #3220: KeyError when having a duplicate citation
 * #3200: LaTeX: xref inside desc_name not allowed
 * #3228: ``build_sphinx`` command crashes when missing dependency
+* #2469: Ignore updates of catalog files for gettext builder. Thanks to
+  Hiroshi Ohkubo.
 
 
 Release 1.5 (released Dec 5, 2016)

sphinx/application.py

@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ class Sphinx(object):
         if freshenv:
             self.env = BuildEnvironment(self.srcdir, self.doctreedir, self.config)
             self.env.set_warnfunc(self.warn)
-            self.env.find_files(self.config)
+            self.env.find_files(self.config, self.buildername)
             for domain in self.domains.keys():
                 self.env.domains[domain] = self.domains[domain](self.env)
         else:

sphinx/environment/__init__.py

@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ class BuildEnvironment(object):
             enc_rel_fn = rel_fn.encode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())
             return rel_fn, path.abspath(path.join(self.srcdir, enc_rel_fn))
 
-    def find_files(self, config):
+    def find_files(self, config, buildername=None):
         """Find all source files in the source dir and put them in
         self.found_docs.
         """
@@ -397,6 +397,13 @@ class BuildEnvironment(object):
             else:
                 self.warn(docname, "document not readable. Ignored.")
 
+        # Current implementation is applying translated messages in the reading
+        # phase.Therefore, in order to apply the updated message catalog, it is
+        # necessary to re-process from the reading phase. Here, if dependency
+        # is set for the doc source and the mo file, it is processed again from
+        # the reading phase when mo is updated. In the future, we would like to
+        # move i18n process into the writing phase, and remove these lines.
+        if buildername != 'gettext':
             # add catalog mo file dependency
             for docname in self.found_docs:
                 catalog_files = find_catalog_files(
@@ -488,7 +495,7 @@ class BuildEnvironment(object):
         # the source and doctree directories may have been relocated
         self.srcdir = srcdir
         self.doctreedir = doctreedir
-        self.find_files(config)
+        self.find_files(config, app.buildername)
         self.config = config
 
         # this cache also needs to be updated every time

tests/test_intl.py

@@ -367,6 +367,15 @@ def test_gettext_builder(app, status, warning):
     for expect_msg in [m for m in expect if m.id]:
         yield assert_in, expect_msg.id, [m.id for m in actual if m.id]
 
+    # --- don't rebuild by .mo mtime
+    app.builder.build_update()
+    updated = app.env.update(app.config, app.srcdir, app.doctreedir, app)
+    yield assert_equal, len(updated), 0
+
+    (app.srcdir / 'xx' / 'LC_MESSAGES' / 'bom.mo').utime(None)
+    updated = app.env.update(app.config, app.srcdir, app.doctreedir, app)
+    yield assert_equal, len(updated), 0
+
 
 @gen_with_intl_app('html', freshenv=True)
 def test_html_builder(app, status, warning):