Re: glib-gettextize [was: Re: libfoo2 vs. libfoo]

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 11:18, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 15:26, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > 
> > > Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org> writes: 
> > > > Is there any way to do this without checking in a modified
> > > > po/Makefile.in.in? Some autogen.sh scripts run gettextize and will
> > > > overwrite this file. It also doesn't seem very robust against gettext
> > > > version changes.
> > > 
> > > We shouldn't be running gettextize anyway. It creates the "intl"
> > > subdir, which is _entirely_ useless throughout all of GNOME, because
> > > GLib requires an actual gettext, you can't use the intl subdir. 
> > > All configure.in should be using AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT which handles
> > > this correctly. Not to mention gettextize's busted-ass insistence on
> > > modifying po/ChangeLog.
> > > 
> > > If we don't want to cut-and-paste the po/Makefile.in.in around, we
> > > should just have a "glib-gettexttize" that creates that file.
> > 
> > ok - this includes a couple of fixes for po2tbl.sed.  does this look ok
> > to go in?
> 
> Looks good, but please add a comment to the top of glib-gettextize
> saying how it was modified, who modified it and when.

done.  i'm assuming there's no reason not to use glib-gettextize in
pango, gtk etc. but i'm not in a hurry to patch those yet.

jacob
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