Re: gettext in build system

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:13:55AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> +po/messages.pot: po/POTFILES
> +	xgettext --from-code=utf-8 --keyword=_ -f $< -o $@
> +
> +po/*.po: po/messages.pot
> +	msgmerge -U $@ po/messages.pot
> +
> +po/%.mo: po/%.po
> +	$(MKDIR_P) $$(dirname $@)
> +	msgfmt -c --statistics -o $@ $^

Obvious missing thing is that these should be autoconffed.

> +#define _(str) gettext(str)

And I'm not sure if this is the right place to define _.  Isn't there
a system-wide definition?

> +  textdomain ("grub");

What's the usual way to handle this?  TEXTDOMAIN macro?

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