Re: Bug#538150: gettext: autopoint does not see additional po/ directories (fwd)

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 11:38:59 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Guillem Jover wrote:
> > > > getttextize used to support more than one podir
> > > 
> > > No, gettextize always only supported one podir.

> > I can see gettextize's --po-dir option which can be
> > specified several times
> 
> Oops, you are right. I was wrong. Since version 0.17, gettextize *does*
> support multiple --po-dir options.

Ok, just checked now, and my recollection was also wrong! as I could not
find anything in older “gettextize” programs that would automatically
handle different «po/» dirs.

> > But cannot find any option in the info docs, nor
> > anything in autopoint's code which would seem to support several po/
> > dirs. So I'm a bit confused now
> 
> autopoint does it automatically. It infers the list of po/ dirs.
> Just try it.

I've done that in the past, and before filing the bug, I've prepared now
a small test case, at least it will be easier to see if I'm doing
something wrong?

> > Or better yet, add it to the docs?
> 
> What should I add to the docs, if a feature is automatic?

I was assuming there might be an option missing or a macro to call
that was not documented.

> If you want to reopen this bug report, please provide a test case
> (configure.ac, Makefile.am etc. with several po/ directories) and
> a sequence of commands, including an autopoint invocation, that
> supports your claim.

Attached the test case (similar to the current dpkg setup). After
unpacking the tarball and then running “autoreconf -f -i” (autopoint
should be called by autoreconf itself), there's at least ‘Makfile.in.in’
and ‘remove-potcdate.sin’ missing from «a/po/» and «b/po», which are
the minimum files to be able to build it.

regards,
guillem

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