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[PATCH 2/3] gettext: Add GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease Makefile parameter

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 3, 2010, 23:24 UTC
Message-ID
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Add a new GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease Makefile debug target. With this target every invocation of _(s) will return "# GETTEXT POISON #" instead of `s' or the msgstr that `s` would look up.

This target is intended to sanity check the gettextization series against the test suite.

If the test suite is relying on the US English output of Git the test should either have a NO_GETTEXT_POISON prerequisite, or the message in question shouldn't be translated because it's a plumbing message.

We won't catch everything with this since we don't have 100% test coverage, but the chances of us doing so are much larger.

The reason I'm using "# GETTEXT POISON #" is that a lot of tests that rely on the fake editor would break if it wasn't a comment, since the comment message that's inserted on e.g. `git commit --amend' is translatable.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 Makefile      |    9 +++++++++
 gettext.h     |    4 ++++
 t/test-lib.sh |    1 +
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7fd43ec..b6a734c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ all::
 # on platforms where we don't expect glibc (Linux, Hurd,
 # GNU/kFreeBSD), which includes libintl.
 #
+# Define GETTEXT_POISON to turn all strings that use gettext into
+# gibberish. This option should only be used by the Git developers to
+# check that the Git gettext implementation itself is sane.
+#
 # Define EXPATDIR=/foo/bar if your expat header and library files are in
 # /foo/bar/include and /foo/bar/lib directories.
 #
@@ -1506,6 +1510,10 @@ ifdef NEEDS_LIBINTL
 	EXTLIBS += -lintl
 endif
 
+ifdef GETTEXT_POISON
+	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DGETTEXT_POISON
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(TCLTK_PATH),)
 NO_TCLTK=NoThanks
 endif
@@ -2059,6 +2067,7 @@ ifdef GIT_TEST_CMP_USE_COPIED_CONTEXT
 	@echo GIT_TEST_CMP_USE_COPIED_CONTEXT=YesPlease >>$@
 endif
 	@echo NO_GETTEXT=\''$(subst ','\'',$(subst ','\'',$(NO_GETTEXT)))'\' >>$@
+	@echo GETTEXT_POISON=\''$(subst ','\'',$(subst ','\'',$(GETTEXT_POISON)))'\' >>$@
 
 ### Detect Tck/Tk interpreter path changes
 ifndef NO_TCLTK
diff --git a/gettext.h b/gettext.h
index e02939a..94ab0f3 100644
--- a/gettext.h
+++ b/gettext.h
@@ -11,8 +11,12 @@ extern void git_setup_gettext(void);
 #ifdef NO_GETTEXT
 #define _(s) (s)
 #else
+#ifndef GETTEXT_POISON
 #include <libintl.h>
 #define _(s) gettext(s)
+#else
+#define _(s) "# GETTEXT POISON #"
+#endif
 #endif
 
 #endif
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 3a39c6f..dc55c78 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -921,6 +921,7 @@ esac
 test -z "$NO_PERL" && test_set_prereq PERL
 test -z "$NO_PYTHON" && test_set_prereq PYTHON
 test -z "$NO_GETTEXT" && test_set_prereq GETTEXT
+test -z "$GETTEXT_POISON" && test_set_prereq NO_GETTEXT_POISON
 
 # test whether the filesystem supports symbolic links
 ln -s x y 2>/dev/null && test -h y 2>/dev/null && test_set_prereq SYMLINKS
-- 
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  1. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 3, 2010
  2. 0/3 ab/i18n: README and GETTEXT_POISON supportÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Sep 3, 2010
  3. 1/3 gettext: Add po/README file documenting Git's gettextÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Sep 3, 2010
  4. 2/3 gettext: Add GETTEXT_POISON=YesPlease Makefile parameterÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Sep 3, 2010
  5. 3/3 gettext: add NO_GETTEXT_POISON prerequisite to testsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Sep 3, 2010
  6. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 3, 2010
  7. 0/2 [PULL] ab/i18n-gettextize & translationsavarab@gmail.com, Sep 4, 2010
  8. 1/2 po/de.po: add German translationavarab@gmail.com, Sep 4, 2010
  9. Thomas RastSep 6, 2010
  10. Jan KrügerSep 6, 2010
  11. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 6, 2010
  12. Jens LehmannSep 6, 2010
  13. Tilo SchwarzSep 6, 2010
  14. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 6, 2010
  15. 2/2 po/en_GB.po: add British English Translationavarab@gmail.com, Sep 4, 2010

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