Re: msgfmt -c

[Roger Leigh <rleigh whinlatter ukfsn org>]

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Andreas Stricker <andreas stricker fela ch> writes:

> > > > to add a new language (po file) to my project, i simply edit
> > > > configure.in and add the language code to 'ALL_LINGUAS', and the po
> > > > file gets compiled when i 'make'. now, how can i tell 'make' to
> > > > compile with 'msgfmt -c'  -- instead of  simply 'msgfmt' -- so that
> > > > the po file is checked for format errors? (and in a way that my
> > > > setting doesn't get overwritten next time i do an './autogen.sh'!)
> >
> > > I think you could simply edit po/Makefile.in.in and add this option
> > > at the right place.
> >
> > yes, but that one gets overwritten and my change lost when i call
> > autogen.sh :-/
>
> You're right, autogen.sh calls glib-gettextize with the --force option
> that will overwrite your changes.
> It looks like this Makefile don't need to be overwritten in your case.

It's also worth mentioning here that glib-gettextize is way out of
date and should not be used (it should be removed and replaced with a
wrapper around autopoint).

Now that gettext provides "autopoint", there is no need for
glib-gettextize.  glib-gettextize doesn't exploit the features of
current gettext releases (it was forked from gettextize several years
ago, and has not been kept up-to-date), such as e.g. gettext-0.14.5.

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308769 for an example.


Regards,
Roger

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