Allow SysV-style variable references to use {} in addition to (). Add variable.h to the POTFILES.in since it has a translatable string.
* Never use "touch" in make rules; it breaks on most sub-second supporting systems. Use echo "" > $@ instead. * Forgot to close test makefiles before using them! All the above worked fine on Linux but failed miserably on Solaris.
decided to implement this a different way, and didn't use it.
Add a new test suite for automatic variables.