Re: msgfmt?

[Ross Golder <ross golder org>]

On อ., 2005-08-09 at 16:44 +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote:
> Hi guys :)
> 
> I submitted an updated file today, and fortunately the commit check  
> caught a variable which hadn't been changed.
> 
> But my msgfmt check turned up clean. I find this very puzzling, since  
> the variable was definitely wrong.
> 

Not sure if it's the best advice, but I did this for a load of
gtranslator po files recently (changed 'translator_credits' to
'translator-credits' in all files with sed), and found a couple of them
would no longer commit (due to new msgfmt checks). I fixed those cases
where I could and simply commented out the ones that I couldn't (only a
handful of cases). Hopefully, next time the translators looks over those
files they'll get fixed up properly.

> I'm using:
> 
> msgfmt -cv
> 
> and normally that catches all the usual errors, including disparate  
> printfs.
> 

What version of gettext are you using?

I just checked, the version of gettext running on container for the
commit check is 0.11.4. I didn't realise it was that ancient!

I just tried to rebuild a more recent one (from FC4's 0.14.3 SRPM), but
it's not playing nicely with the older auto* environment on the
gnome.org servers (and I don't fancy upgrading all that too just to
rebuild a gettext RPM!).

CCing infrastructure: Consider this a 'todo' item to upgrade gettext on
container. Or, arrange to get the machines upgraded to RHEL4 (or
anything more up-to-date than bloody RHEL3!!!).

--
Ross

> 
> Can someone help me sort this out, please? I don't want to submit  
> incorrect files. :(
> 
> from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
> Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN
> 
> 
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