Re: [bug-gettext] xgettext -L shell -k --keyword X : 'VAR=VAL X' not recognized - bug?

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Jason Vas Dias wrote on 2019-08-27:
>    $ echo '#!/bin/bash
>    function say()
>    { declare -n v="$1"; shift;
>      v=${LOG_TAG}${LOG_TAG:+: }$(gettext -d $MY_TEXT_DOMAIN "$@");
>      return $(( (${#v}>0)?0:1 ));
>    }
>    tr_msg=;
>    LOG_TAG=X say tr_msg hello;
>    echo "$tr_msg";
>     ' > t.sh
>    $ xgettext -L shell -k --keyword=say:2 -o - t.sh
>    $
>    # (no output!)
> 
>  If I remove the LOG_TAG=X setting on line 7, we get:
> 
>    $ xgettext -L shell -k --keyword=say:2 -o - t.sh
>    ...
>    #: t.sh:8
>    msgid "hello"
>    msgstr ""
> 
> 
>  So xgettext -L shell does not recognize bash shell command-specific
>  environment variable settings when prefixed to a keyword command.
> 
>  Why ? All major POSIX compatible shell versions I know of support
>     'VAR=VAL $command;'
>  statement syntax, which is very simple to recognize.
> 
>  Please could a future version of gettext recognize this legal
>  shell syntax!

Thanks for the suggestion. This is now implemented through
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=commitdiff;h=63587292db018bf10d9ab9ca9d63dc9ee8cabfc8

It will be included in the next gettext release.

Bruno