id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
23897	makemessages does not work if STATIC_ROOT isn't defined	Igor Koshkarov	nobody	"After new project is created, I have put into settings.py:

{{{
LOCALE_PATHS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'locale'),
)
LANGUAGES = (
    ('ru', 'Russian'),
    ('en', 'English'),
)
}}}

I have created directory 'locale' under BASE_PATH as well.
And after I ran ./manage.py makemessages -l ru I got:

{{{
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""/Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/helpers/pycharm/django_manage.py"", line 41, in <module>
    run_module(manage_file, None, '__main__', True)
  File ""/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py"", line 176, in run_module
    fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File ""/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py"", line 82, in _run_module_code
    mod_name, mod_fname, mod_loader, pkg_name)
  File ""/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/runpy.py"", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File ""/Users/igo/PycharmProjects/TestTest/manage.py"", line 10, in <module>
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File ""/Users/igo/Django/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py"", line 385, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File ""/Users/igo/Django/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py"", line 377, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File ""/Users/igo/Django/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py"", line 288, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
  File ""/Users/igo/Django/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py"", line 338, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File ""/Users/igo/Django/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py"", line 533, in handle
    return self.handle_noargs(**options)
  File ""/Users/igo/Django/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/makemessages.py"", line 283, in handle_noargs
    potfiles = self.build_potfiles()
  File ""/Users/igo/Django/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/makemessages.py"", line 299, in build_potfiles
    file_list = self.find_files(""."")
  File ""/Users/igo/Django/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/makemessages.py"", line 358, in find_files
    ignored_roots = [os.path.normpath(p) for p in (settings.MEDIA_ROOT, settings.STATIC_ROOT)]
  File ""/Users/igo/Django/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py"", line 327, in normpath
    initial_slashes = path.startswith('/')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'
}}}"	Bug	closed	Internationalization	dev	Normal	duplicate			Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0