Re: msgfmt?

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

Ross Golder wrote:

> 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.
>  
Grepping the .po files from GNOME 2.12 today (now) shows that the 
following remain to be fixed:

bug-buddy.HEAD.el.po:msgid "translator_credits-PLEASE_ADD_YOURSELF_HERE"
dasher.gnome-2-12.el.po:msgid "translator_credits"
gconf-editor.HEAD.el.po:msgid "translator_credits"
gnome-applets.HEAD.el.po:msgid "translator_credits"
gnomemeeting.HEAD.el.po:msgid "translator_credits"
gnome-netstatus.HEAD.el.po:msgid "translator_credits"
gnome-nettool.HEAD.el.po:msgid "translator_credits"
gucharmap.HEAD.el.po:msgid "translator_credits"

Simos Xenitellis
http://simos.info/blog/

> > 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. :(
> >