[i18n] translation.php wipes out messages ?

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Benoit St-André <ben at benoitst-andre.net>:

> Le lun 08/09/2003 à 04:29, Jan Schneider a écrit :
> > Zitat von Benoit St-André <ben at benoitst-andre.net>:
> >
> > > How to update a translation
> > >
> > > 1-Create the compendium for my  language:  ./translation.php
> compendium
> > > -l fr_FR
> > >
> > > 2-Update the translation: ./translation.php update -m modulename -l
> > > fr_FR
> > >
> > > 3-Edit the fr_FR.po of that module, translate, translate,
> translate...
> > >
> > > 4-Compile the translation ./translation.php make -m modulename -l
> fr_FR
> > > ====
> > >
> > > Is that correct ? What am I missing here ? Normally, the update
> process
> > > should pick in all the messages and not miss the ones like "Save
> Draft",
> > > no ? Where am I making a mistake ?
> >
> > This is correct. Perhaps you have a broken or too old xgettext version,
> hard
> > to tell without knowing more. The update command is essentially a
> combined
> > extract/merge command. So if you have problems extracting all strings
> from
> > the files, you should only use merge instead that relies on the
> distributed
> > .pot files that get updated by us from time to time.
>
>
> > Jan.
>
> I got gettext-0.11.5-2mdk which is standard with Mandrake 9.1 (most
> recent one). I've seen that it maybe "necessary" to have gettext-0.12,
> no rpms available easily (I have to uninstall a bunch of other things to
> make it work).
>
> I compiled gettext from the sources, it is working BUT, how can I tell
> translation.php to use that gettext version instead of the other one ? I
> browsed the script without finding... (can I just make a symbolic link
> from the old gettext tools to the new ones ? seems too easy... )

translation.php takes the gettext binaries that are first in your PATH.

Jan.

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