Re: Upgrade of gettext on git.gnome.org (was Re: Moving GLib and GTK+ to git)

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 16:56 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 22:45 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:07:30PM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > I've got a local branch with the rebased client-side-windows work.
> > > However, I am unable to push it to git.gnome.org due to the pre-commit
> > > hooks:
> > > 
> > > The following translation (.po) file appears to be invalid. (When
> > > updating branch 'client-side-windows'.)
> > > po/af.po
> > > The results of the validation follow. Please correct the errors on the
> > > line numbers mentioned and try to push again.
> > > <stdin>:90: keyword "msgctxt" unknown
> > > <stdin>:90:8: parse error
> > > .....
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Checking
> > > http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gitadmin-bin/tree/pre-receive-check-po we
> > > have:
> > > 
> > > # gettext-0.14.6 on git.gnome.org isn't new enough to handle
> > > # features such as msgctx
> > > # dash_c="-c"
> > >  dash_c=
> > 
> > So a gettext update should be done. CC'ed gnome-sysadmin.
> 
> Upgrading the system gettext to a radically different version isn't
> something that I want to do. My plan here is to create an RPM with just
> the gettext utilities that installs in /usr/lib/gettext17 or something.
> 
> (BTW, I temporarily disabled the hooks so Alex could push his branch.)

I've now gone ahead and done this - there is a statically linked version
of gettext-0.17 in /usr/libexec/gettext17 that the pre-receive check
uses now.

I've also reeneabled -c, so it should be doing a full set of checks.

Let me know if any problems show up.

- Owen