Re: xgettext with UI files support

[Richard PALO <richard%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Le 17/06/15 17:42, Ryo ONODERA a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> From: Richard PALO <richard%netbsd.org@localhost>, Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:13:34 +0200
> 
>> Le 15/06/15 17:00, Ryo ONODERA a écrit :
> (snip)
>>
>> It looks like there are plenty of us working on gettext lately!
>>
>> Perhaps this should be all overhauled, as there is another issue that needs addressing
>> namely the fact that configure scripts frequently look for the g' prefixed flavours of
>> the programs as well (in order to avoid a mix of pkgsrc and native gettext being used as
>> currently is frequently the case, for example, on SunOS).
>>
>> The easy part is converting gettext-tools to do like GNU binutils or diffutils and
>> put the g' flavour in bin with symlinks in $PKGGNUDIR/bin, but the TOOLS also need to do the right thing.
>>
>> Can we do this a bit more formalistic?
> 
> Could you provide me any hint about what problem is fixed with g-prefix?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
>> -- 
>> Richard PALO
>>

most solaris platforms traditionally have *at least* native gettext, msgfmt, and xgettext
in /usr/gnu/bin and g-prefixed binaries in /usr/bin.

The problem to be fixed is when pkgsrc gettext-tools should be used, but
with the g-prefix, GNU configure can pick up native for those *and then*
pkgsrc gettext for the rest.

For a example, take a look at databases/gnome-mime-data wrt gmsgfmt.

cheers

-- 
Richard PALO