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Re: coreutils 7.6: --enable-nls fails
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Eric Blake |
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Re: coreutils 7.6: --enable-nls fails |
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Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:23:49 -0700 |
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According to Jim Meyering on 11/13/2009 9:58 AM:
> Martin Jacobs wrote:
> ...
>> Back to coreutils, with that in mind I
>> did change configure.ac:
>>
>> AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-formatstring-macros])
>>
>> reads now
>>
>> AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-ngettext])
What about Bruno's comments here?
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2009-08/msg00006.html
Unlike bison, coreutils does indeed use formatstring macros (for example,
dd.c). Dropping the requirement to need-ngettext instead of
need-formatstring-macros will cause crashes if those strings are ever
translated.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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