Re: lynx-dev Old gettext version in lynx code (was: Hello/LYNX)

[dickey]

> > In any case, it seems (to me) that the libintl has to match the xgettext 
> > utility. 
>  
> True, but, including both in the Lynx distribution does not guarantee 
> that they will not get mixed up or out of synch.  (Two months after 
> Lynx was installed, a person working on the translation updates the 
> lynx.mo file, typing msgfmt instead of gmsgfmt.) 

yes.  (I don't much like seeing code that's incompatible for no reason).
 
> > Is there a good reason for GNU's (binary) message library format 
> > being incompatible with Solaris'? 
>  
> Money. :) 

not good enough.
  
> (Not entirely a joke, since as you must have found by now, the GNU 
> xgettext absolutely requires an empty msgid ""/msgstr "" pair which 
> includes the version date, character set, etc. in addition to the 
> commented-out Copyright notice.  This can be deleted, however, before 
> running msgfmt on the po file.) 
>  
> Would you mind giving a _complete_ enough description of how to set 
> up NLS using entirely the Solaris libintl, xgettext and msgfmt that I 
> could do it for comparison purposes?  Is the Solaris source code 
> openly available? 

I suspect that (like a lot of other stuff) the _binary file_ format is readily
available in Solaris's headers.  (That's why I don't understand that there's
a reason for a core dump).

Perhaps the newer GNU libintl doesn't dump core when reading Solaris' message
files (iirc, either way of mismatch does this now).
  
> __Henry 


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