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Re: [PATCH] maintainer-makefile: make sc_po_check easier to tune
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [PATCH] maintainer-makefile: make sc_po_check easier to tune |
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Fri, 06 May 2011 16:54:13 -0600 |
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On 05/06/2011 04:43 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> ... want to ensure xgettext scans some generated files not in git.
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> Normally it is recommended [1] to list in POTFILES.in the actual source files,
> not the generated files.
I tend to agree, for .y or .l files where the C string literals are
quite easy to pick out. But when the files are generated via a custom
perl script, but xgettext still has to pull out C string literals, it's
easier to list the end result than to teach xgettext a new language.
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Eric Blake address@hidden +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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