Re: Bug#227339: xgettext does sometimes not print comments found into source files (fwd)

[Bruno Haible]

Denis Barbier wrote:

> Hi, here is a test case:
> ################### test.c #########################
> /* Test 1 */
> char *s1 = gettext("foo"
>                    "bar");
> /* Test 2 */
> char *s2 = gettext("baz" "quux");
> char *s1 = gettext("blah"
> /* Test 3 */
>                    "blah");
> ############### End of test.c ######################
>
>   $ xgettext -c --omit-header -o - test.c
>   #: test.c:2
>   msgid "foobar"
>   msgstr ""
>
>   #. Test 2
>   #: test.c:5
>   msgid "bazquux"
>   msgstr ""
>
>   #. Test 3
>   #: test.c:6
>   msgid "blahblah"
>   msgstr ""
>   $

> IMO documentation makes sense, comment 1 should be displayed, but not 3.

Thanks for the report. It will be fixed in gettext 0.14. Hope you can
wait so long.

Bruno