"make clean" in shared-mime-info deletes freedesktop.org.xml, which "make" cannot regenerate. (You have to "cvs up" to get it back.)
Created attachment 1447 [details] [review] fix OK, the problem is that the intltool files were listed in CLEANFILES instead of DISTCLEANFILES, so "make clean" would delete them, making it impossible to regenerate freedesktop.xml from freedesktop.xml.in. Patch attached.
Committed, thanks.
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