[GNC-dev] 'c++-format' flags disappear on msgmerge

[john]

> On Nov 6, 2023, at 16:21, Frank H. Ellenberger <frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> as GIMPNET (IRC) is currently split I use the mailing list.
> 
> When i tried to msgmerge PR #1815 I watched that c++-format flags disappeared from the po files starting with
> 
> #: gnucash/gnucash-cli.cpp:170
> #, c++-format
> msgid "Unknown quotes command '{1}'"
> msgstr "Unbekannter Kurs-Befehl »{1}«"
> 
> which becomes
> 
> #: gnucash/gnucash-cli.cpp:170
> msgid "Unknown quotes command '{1}'"
> msgstr "Unbekannter Kurs-Befehl »{1}«"
> 
> I am running xgettext (GNU gettext-tools) 0.21.1
> 
> Did someone change options for its call?
> 

Frank,

Not recently: the last change to po/CMakeLists.txt was 8 months ago, as was the last change to gnucash-cli.cpp. Did you do an OS update recently that might have installed a different version of boost?

Did you try nuking your build directory and reconfiguring it?

Regards,
Jonn Ralls