[ adding bug-gettext ]
* David Bruce wrote on Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:40:58PM CET:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:31 PM, David Bruce wrote:
> > We have reorganized our package (tuxmath) into a smaller package for
> > the game itself, plus a separate library package (t4k_common). Both
> > packages use autotools, including autoheader. As part of t4k_common,
> > we provide a couple of replacement functions (alphasort() and
> > scandir()) for platforms lacking these functions. Thus, our
> > t4k_common.h header needs to have an autoheader include so it can
> > conditionally include the prototypes for these functions.
> >
> > Since just putting #include "config.h" at the top of our library
> > header would cause a name collision with tuxmath's config.h, I have
> > used the ax_prefix_config_h.m4 macro to rename t4k_common's config.h
> > to "t4k_common-config.h", and adapted all the *.c files accordingly.
>
> I've discovered a more serious issue with my use of
> ax_prefix_config_h.m4 - it appears to be interfering with gettext()
> calls from within the library functions. Looking at the gettext
> manual for using gettext within a library, it says "If it uses the
> translation domain and POT file of the main program, then the previous
> sections apply without changes.", which I believe is the case here -
> the library source files don't have their own translatable strings,
> but they do have gettext() calls to translate strings that are covered
> by tuxmath's *.po files.
>
> I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to get this fixed. As a test, I've
> tried hard-coding the gettext setup functions within the library to
> use the same values as tuxmath (see below), but I still don't get
> output of translated strings.
>
> {
> const char *s1, *s2, *s3, *s4;
> s1 = setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL);
> s2 = bindtextdomain("tuxmath", "/usr/local/share/locale");
> s3 = bind_textdomain_codeset("tuxmath", "UTF-8");
> s4 = textdomain("tuxmath");
> printf("In InitT4KCommon():\n");
> printf("setlocale(LC_ALL, \"\") returned: %s\n", s1);
> printf("bindtextdomain(\"tuxmath\", \"/usr/local/share/locale\")
> returned: %s\n", s2);
> printf("bind_textdomain_codeset(\"tuxmath\", \"UTF-8\") returned:
> %s\n", s3);
> printf("textdomain(\"tuxmath\") returned: %s\n", s4);
> printf("gettext(\"Help\"): %s\n\n", gettext("Help"));
> printf("_(\"Help\"): %s\n\n", _("Help"));
> }
>
> I suspect that something about the renaming done by
> ax_prefix_config_h.m4 is preventing gettext from locating the message
> catelogs properly. Also, I realize this is getting more into gettext
> than autoconf territory, but it seems there is a lot of overlap in
> expertise within the autotools family. Should I take this to the
> bug-gnu list that handles gettext issues?
Let's ask on the (fairly new) bug-gettext list. Do you have a small
reproducer setup? I guess that could help to pinpoint the issue
quickly.
Thanks,
Ralf
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