Re: gettext in build system

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:32:52PM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:56:06PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > > > +#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?
> 
> I'm not aware of any convention, not even for GNU packages. nls.h, i18n.h,
> grub-i18n.h. You name it. :)

Ok.  <grub/i18n.h> then.

> > > 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?
> 
> *shrug*, I think just assuming the usual $(datadir)/locale is ok. po.m4
> does provide checks for the gettext tools iirc, though, so that might
> be useful in its own right.

I enabled AM_GNU_GETTEXT() which drags that in, as well as a few of the
other declarations we needed.

Thanks!

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