Re: Qt4, gettext and autopoint

[Christophe Mutricy]

Hello,

Le Wed 25 Mar 09 à 19:48 +0100, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda a écrit :
> A Dimecres 25 Març 2009, Christophe Mutricy va escriure:
> > Hello,
> >
> > In VLC, we use mainly C and auto*. So it just works with gettext and the
> > Makefile.in.in installed by autopoint.
> >
> > Now, it gets more tricky with the Qt4 interface. No problem with the
> > strings in the C++ files. But the strings in the .ui files cause
> > problems.
> > These .ui files are xml files and are translated in C headers files by
> > uic which take care of transforming the xml-escaped strings in proper C
> > strings.
> > Running msgfmt on the .h files works OK but as they are generated files
> > we don't keep them in Git and they are in builddir rather than srcdir.
> >
> > So first question: Is there a way to have files in
> > ${top_builddir}/foo/bar in POTFILES.in
> >
> > Another option would be to run sed (or another program) on the .ui
> > before parsing them with msgfmt. I can't find a way to do that with the
> > default Makefile.in.in installed by autopoint. Have I mised something?
> >
> We pass the .h files to xgettext (not msgfmt?)
Hmm i meant xgettext. I shouldn't write mail too late at night.

 
> So, I think that it's better to pass the .h files to xgettext and not the 
> .ui, 
I agree

> OTOH, I'm almost sure that you can put a list of files that are generated in 
> the potfiles.in. We do it with cmake, so I think that autotools have some 
> similar method.

That where it causes problem for me because it will look for the
generated files in srcdir and not builddir and a lot of us really like
to have srcdir!=builddir



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