On donderdag 23 maart 2017 20:11:36 CET Geert Janssens wrote: > > There's also gettext (see bug 759844 > > <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759844>), but that's more an > > issue for what we use to build release tarballs than anything that users > > or > > distro packagers need to be concerned about. > > Ah yes, the gettext bug. There are two actually the one you mention here and > Bug 745941 - Review of po Headers / make pot[1] > The former is about translatable strings being omitted from glade files if > they have a context attribute *and* we're building in tree. This bug can > simply be avoided by building out of tree. That however triggers a bug in > intltool versions older than 0.51 (which incidentally is the last released > version and rather old by now). > > The latter bug started out as a bug reporting two translation issues. One > has been fixed, the other is actually the very same intltool issue of > causing absolute paths in gnucash.pot and derived po files. Again the > immediate solution is to switch to intltool 0.51 and keep building out of > tree. > > The experiments I reported on that bug all date from before intltool 0.51 > got released. > > Ideally we should dump intltool completely as it's no longer maintained. I > did a few experiments today to generate our gnucash.pot file using gettext > only but didn't get it right first time. So this needs some more > experimentation. Frank's wiki page on this[2] has a very good summary and > pointers to start from. As for the gettext version to set as baseline, > based on Frank's summary ideally it should be 0.19.3. However if we stick > with intltool, this can be relaxed quite a bit as in that case intltool > will take care of all that has been added in 0.19. In that case RHEL/Centos > 7's 0.18.2 is probably sufficient already. > Forgot the distro list for gettext: RHEL/Centos 7: 0.18.2 Mingw: 0.18.1 (Mingw64 has 0.19.8) Debian stable 0.19.3 Ubuntu trusty 0.18.3 openSuse Leap 0.19.2
So moving away from intltool will be hard for now... Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
