Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:25:24 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] i18n: disable i18n for shell scripts if NO_GETTEXT defined > > Otherwise the i18n is used in the scripts even with NO_GETTEXT set. > It is very unexpected. > > I generally disable i18n on my working systems as they are generally very > out-of-date and not supported by any sane developer. In particular the > gettext provided with this (very old) Cygwin distribution is fubar and > never produces any output. > --- Thanks for spotting. I agree that we should honor NO_GETTEXT here. But the result of the patch looks almost unreadable. could we restructure the script like this instead? # Decide what to do... GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME=fallthrough if test -n "@@NO_GETTEXT@@$GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_TEST_FALLBACKS" then : no probing necessary elif test -n "$GIT_GETTEXT_POISON" then GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME=poison elif type gettext.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 then GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME=gnu elif test "$(gettext -h 2>&1)" = "-h" then GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME=solaris fi export GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME # ... and then carry out the decision case "$GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME" in gnu) ... gnu definition here ... ;; solaris) ... solaris cdefinition here ... ;; poison) ... poison cdefinition here ... ;; *) ... fallthru definition here ... ;; esac -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html