From c6ad713df8e899551ac57d72cb361e10a4c9c741 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cory Francis Myers <cory@freedom.press>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 18:45:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] handles base case where no translation catalogs are present

---
 Makefile | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index a70ecbb767..023761122b 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ version:
 ##############
 
 LOCALE_DIR=securedrop_client/locale
+LOCALES=$(shell find ${LOCALE_DIR} -name "*.po")
 POT=${LOCALE_DIR}/messages.pot
 SUPPORTED_LOCALES_LIST=l10n.txt
 VERSION=$(shell python -c "import securedrop_client; print(securedrop_client.__version__)")
@@ -194,6 +195,9 @@ $(POT): securedrop_client
 # msgmerge even though pybabel.update() is available.  Here we use
 # "pybabel update" for consistency with "pybabel extract".
 ${LOCALE_DIR}/%/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po: ${POT}
+ifeq ($(strip $(LOCALES)),)
+	@echo "no translation catalogs to update"
+else
 	@pybabel update \
 		--locale $$(echo $@ | grep -Eio "[a-zA-Z_]+/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po" | sed 's/\/LC_MESSAGES\/messages.po//') \
 		--input-file ${POT} \
@@ -201,12 +205,17 @@ ${LOCALE_DIR}/%/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po: ${POT}
 		--no-wrap \
 		--previous
 	@sed -i -e '/^"POT-Creation-Date/d' $@
+endif
 
 # Compile a locale's PO to MO for (a) development runtime or (b) packaging.
 ${LOCALE_DIR}/%/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo: ${LOCALE_DIR}/%/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po
+ifeq ($(strip $(LOCALES)),)
+	@echo "no translation catalogs to compile"
+else
 	@pybabel compile \
 		--directory ${LOCALE_DIR} \
 		--statistics
+endif
 
 # List languages 100% translated in Weblate.
 .PHONY: supported-languages