From 3e90357803c3e3c651e1894d7b824d05d6a745fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Warner Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 17:08:02 -0600 Subject: build-sys: use Makevars --add-comments= to limit .pot comments By not limiting --add-comments= via an argument, xgettext is far too aggressive (one might say stupid) when extracting comments. It doesn't even limit extraction to a single preceeding comment. Here is an example showing a program source excerpt and the resulting .pot excerpt: --- program source ---------------------------------------- close (0); dup (in_fd[0]); /* set the stdin to the in pipe */ close (1); dup (out_fd[1]); /* set the stdout to the out pipe */ close (2); dup (out_fd[1]); /* set the stderr to the out pipe */ execvp (args[0], args); /* exec gdb */ perror (_("exec failed")); --- resulting .pot ---------------------------------------- #. set the stdin to the in pipe #. set the stdout to the out pipe #. set the stderr to the out pipe #. exec gdb #: ps/stacktrace.c:28 ps/stacktrace.c:63 msgid "exec failed" msgstr "" --- po/Makevars | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'po') diff --git a/po/Makevars b/po/Makevars index 7865213..88a7408 100644 --- a/po/Makevars +++ b/po/Makevars @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ subdir = po top_builddir = .. # These options get passed to xgettext. -XGETTEXT_OPTIONS = --keyword=_ --keyword=N_ --keyword=P_:1,2 --no-wrap --escape --add-comments= +XGETTEXT_OPTIONS = --keyword=_ --keyword=N_ --keyword=P_:1,2 --no-wrap --escape --add-comments=Translation # This is the copyright holder that gets inserted into the header of the # $(DOMAIN).pot file. Set this to the copyright holder of the surrounding -- cgit v1.2.1