Re: [bug-gettext] interpretation of error messages

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Jon L. Bondy wrote:
> I am encountering error messages while running msgfmt.  The numbers at
> the start of the error messages do not appear to be line numbers.

They are line numbers, but into the PO file, not the source code.

> How does one locate the problem in the source text?  I am using Windows (of
> course!), and thus may not have the same tools available to me as one
> might under Linux.

When you generated the POT file from which the PO file was derived using the
xgettext option --add-location, you get references to the source code in the
PO file.

> I could not find documentation about the format of
> error messages in the GetText Manual PDF

The documentation of error messages in GNU is found in the GNU Coding Standards,
at [1].

Bruno

[1] http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Errors.html
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