Re: gettext in build system

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:09:56PM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> 
> Also, as something merely cosmetic, messages.pot could be $(PACKAGE).pot,
> which is more common.

Changed in my gettext branch.

> > > +#define _(str) gettext(str)
> > And I'm not sure if this is the right place to define _.  Isn't there
> > a system-wide definition?
> 
> This, and others, sometimes go in a common .h to avoid duplication. Many
> grub utilities are going to add this kind of stuff.

I wonder where would we put this.  Is there any convention?

> > > +  textdomain ("grub");
> > What's the usual way to handle this?  TEXTDOMAIN macro?
> 
> As Colin said, $PACKAGE is common.
> I haven't tested this patch yet, but I'm not sure if a bindtextdomain()
> call is needed here too.

This requires LOCALEDIR.  Should we add po.m4 in order to get this, or
just define it ourselves?

> The rest looks good, given there's no automake.

We have aclocal now (in my branch).  Is gettext.m4 usable to us?

-- 
Robert Millan

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