[Po4a-devel] A hackish way of generating bin/po4a.pot

[Nicolas François]

Hi Robert,

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:20:26AM +0100, robert at debian.org wrote:
> 
> Yesterday, while updating Polish translations, I noticed that almost all
> translations for the po4a-build script had been removed (see the bottom
> of the
> https://alioth.debian.org/scm/viewvc.php/po4a/po/bin/pl.po?root=po4a&r1=1.35&r2=1.36
> page).
> After some investigation it turned out that this had been caused by
> passing the  `-L perl' option to xgettext.
> 
> I've found some workaround for the problem. The workaround replaces
> the usual way of generating po4a.pot file with the following steps:
>  1. create temporary symlinks (like po4a.TMP.pl pointing to po4a) to let
>  xgettext guess the language from the extension);
>  2. generate the POT file;
>  3. fix locations in the POT file to make it refer to real files, not
> the temporary ones;
>  4. remove the symlinks.

Thanks for noticing.
This sounds hackish, but if it works, please commit.

If it helps, the tools could be renamed to a .pl name and the extension
can be removed during make install.

-- 
Nekral