Package: gettext
Version: 0.17
Severity: minor
Hi,
I have the following C++ source file:
$ cat test.cc
#include <iostream>
#define _(text) text
int main()
{
std::cout << _("Hi, this is a string") << "\n";
return 0;
}
The paramater handling of option -k causes some problems for me:
According to xgettext --help:
-k, --keyword[=WORD] additional keyword to be looked for (without
WORD means not to use default keywords)
$ xgettext -k=_ -o test.po test.cc; cat test.po
cat: test.po: No such file or directory
Using
$ xgettext --keyword=_ -o test.po test.cc
a proper PO file is created as "_" is recognized as keyword.
Now I wonder, does the short option -k accept parameters or not?
If not shouldn't it complain about "=_"?
I also tried
$ xgettext -k _ -o test.po test.cc; cat test.po
xgettext: xgettext cannot work without keywords to look for
I haven't looked at the source but I think GNU command line parsing
supports also options to short params. See e.g. the examples
% testopt -c foo
aflag = 0, bflag = 0, cvalue = foo
% testopt -cfoo
aflag = 0, bflag = 0, cvalue = foo
in
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libc/Example-of-Getopt.html#Example-of-Getopt
Yep, it is only a minor issue but it took me 5 minutes until I found that
I have to use the long form of the option. I played with --c++ and further
options first because I assumed another option was missing.
Jens
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