Re: Build failures on Ubuntu due to gettext

[Colin Watson]

Furthermore, the style I suggested is used in many other GNU projects.
Here are just a few examples:

  coreutils/src/du.c:994:       error (0, 0, "%s", _("invalid zero-length file 
name"));
  diffutils/src/sdiff.c:853:  fprintf (stderr, "%s", _("\
  diffutils/src/sdiff.c-854-ed:\tEdit then use both versions, each decorated 
with a header.\n\
  glibc/inet/rcmd.c:178:                              __fxprintf(NULL, "%s", 
_("\
  glibc/inet/rcmd.c-179-rcmd: socket: All ports in use\n"));
  gnulib/lib/xalloc-die.c:34:  error (exit_failure, 0, "%s", _("memory 
exhausted"));

Indeed, here's a commit from the gettext author using this style:

  
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gettext.git/commit/?id=d5d1ae3b3c3ae2f837740e5f5d65326197ccdb98

(Look for close_stdout_status in lib/closeout.c.)

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden