Re: msgctxt conversion for 2.26 ?

[Daniel Macks <dmacks netspace org>]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 01:49:47PM -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 08:16 +0100, Claude Paroz wrote:
> > Le lundi 27 octobre 2008 ?? 17:11 -0400, Daniel Macks a ??crit :
> > > Can configure.{ac,in} do a version-check for the new gettext when
> > > packages start requiring it? I don't know enough of gettext's autoconf
> > > macros so I don't know if this is an actual feature-request or just a
> > > friendly reminder:) But anyway, gtkhtml-3.24.0 already uses msgctxt
> > > but there's no indication that a new gettext version is required. On
> > > my machine with gettext-0.14.5, I got a cryptic build crash rather
> > > than a clear ./configure "checking for gettext>=FOO... no" failure.
> > 
> > I don't know if intltool checks for a specific gettext version. CC'd to
> > dobey as he should be able to answer.
> 
> It just checks for gnu gettext. All it calls is AC_PATH_PROG(PROGRAM,
> program) to find the tools, and then calls some of the commands with
> --version to check that they are actually GNU tools. If your error is
> "checking for gettext >= FOO... no" then I would guess the app itself
> is checking for the tools separately, and that is failing. The
> intltool.m4 doesn't have "FOO" in it anywhere.

Sorry, you mis-interpretted most of my comment. "FOO" is just a
placeholder for "whaver minimum version of gettext is needed to
support whatever new gettext feature (for example, msgctxt) is used".
And that's not what the error *is*, it's what the error *should be* if
we want to be helpful to people who are compiling the sources.

dan

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Daniel Macks
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