guile-strings.c; was: r13281 - gnucash/trunk - Make the build work if the build directory is not the source

[Christian Stimming]

Hi Derek,

although the change in itself is very nice and a good improvement, there's now 
one new issue introduced through this: The auto-generated list of 
translations strings from scheme files, intl-scm/guile-strings.c , includes 
the file name for each translation string. This is a workaround in order to 
give translators the information of which scheme file each string came from 
at least in the comment above a translation string, and it's proven quite 
useful. (To check: go into intl-scm directory, "rm guile-strings.c; make" and 
then look into guile-strings.c) 

It used to contain this file name relative to top_srcdir, but with your change 
it will now contain a full absolute path name to those files. The old style 
meant that the po files which were generated from this guile-strings.c 
contained a relative path in the translator comments, independent of the 
actual build directory, which is just fine for po files that are committed to 
SVN and distributed in the tarball. With your change, the po files will now 
contain an absolute path in the translator comments, depending of the 
developer's current build directory, which is also committed to SVN and 
distributed in the tarball. I think that's ... unfortunate.

(In the current update-po commit, I had manually removed the absolute path in 
guile-strings.c to avoid the confusing translators comments.)

One possibility might be to pass the abs_top_srcdir variable to xgettext.scm 
(maybe as first argument), and then have it truncate the filenames by 
removing the leading x characters, where x is the string length of 
abs_top_srcdir; unfortunately my scheme-fu is too limited at the moment...

Christian

Am Freitag, 17. Februar 2006 21:28 schrieb Derek Atkins:
> Author: warlord
> Date: 2006-02-17 15:22:54 -0500 (Fri, 17 Feb 2006)
> New Revision: 13281
> Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/13281
>
> Modified:
>    gnucash/trunk/ChangeLog
>    gnucash/trunk/intl-scm/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/lib/guile-www/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/app-utils/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/business/business-core/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/business/business-gnome/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/business/business-reports/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/business/business-utils/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/business/dialog-tax-table/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/core-utils/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/engine/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/gnc-module/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/gnome-utils/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/gnome/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/import-export/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/import-export/hbci/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/import-export/qif-import/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/import-export/qif-io-core/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/register/register-core/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/report/locale-specific/us/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/report/report-gnome/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/report/report-system/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/report/standard-reports/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/report/stylesheets/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/report/utility-reports/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/scm/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/scm/gnumeric/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/scm/printing/Makefile.am
>    gnucash/trunk/src/tax/us/Makefile.am
> Log:
>           Make the build work if the build directory is not the source
>           directory.  Also symlink .scm files into the build directory
>           so it's possible to run from it.
> 	  Also fix "fin.scm installed twice", bug #168629.
>
>
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