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Re: Whys is `make dist` packaging gmo files?
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Whys is `make dist` packaging gmo files? |
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Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:15:03 -0600 |
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According to Andrew Smith on 8/9/2007 12:34 AM:
> They compile and install and run fine. But when I do `make dist` I end
> up with sv.gmo and zh_TW.gmo (as well as the expected sv.po, zh_TW.po)
> in my po dir. I thought these were binary and not portable?
They are indeed binary, but they ARE portable, as the file layout is
specifically machine-independent. Read up on .gmo files in the gettext
manual. When you install an internationalized package, it is the .gmo
file that gets placed into the locale directory (renamed to .mo); the
gettext() function is more efficient operating on a binary file than it
would be on the source .po that generated it.
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> Would someone share why this may be happening and what I can do to avoid
> it?
You don't want to avoid it, otherwise your package would not have i18n
support.
> Also I just noticed a make clean doesn't delete the .gmo files.
How about 'make distclean'?
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Eric Blake address@hidden
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