Re: Adding an option to xgettext

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Harvey Chapman wrote:
> [Does this list address even work?]

Yes, and you find the archives at
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/>.

> Would it be possible to add an option similar to --extract-all that would
> only extract the strings that normally would not match? I'd like to
> generate warnings for any strings found that are not wrapped in a
> gettext-related macro.   

You don't need a new xgettext option for this:
  1. Run xgettext once, without --extract-all, to get the normal POT file.
  2. Run xgettext with --extract-all, to get all strings.
  3. Run "msgcomm --less-than=2" on the two POT files, to get the difference,
     and see whether the output is empty. You can use option --force-po
     to force an empty POT file even if both inputs are the same.

Bruno