From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:19:15 GMT
Subject: Re: msgmft segfaulting on tiger
Message-ID: <20080305071915.GI8410@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <47C7000C.1000809@gmail.com>

Gabriel Saldaa <gsaldana@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's the output, hope it helps:
> 
> $ msgfmt --tcl -l C -d . /dev/null; echo $?
> msgfmt: unrecognized option `--tcl'
> Try `msgfmt --help' for more information.
> 1
> 
> somehow msgfmt doesn't recognize the --tcl flag.

Just to revive a nearly dead thead...  I have a workaround now in
git-gui maint that looks for this case and falls into our po2msg
script when msgfmt doesn't see --tcl.

I also set Paul Mackerras a patch for gitk, so it can do the
same thing.  Maybe Git 1.5.4.4 will include both patches.
 
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> >
> >>>$ msgfmt --tcl; echo $?
> >>>msgfmt: unrecognized option `--tcl'
> >>>Try `msgfmt --help' for more information.
> >>>1
> >>Darn.  I think that's the same exit code as for any other invocation 
> >>without filename.
> >>
> >>So it seems that there is no easy way to tell a --tcl aware msgfmt from 
> >>the other.
> >
> >How about...
> >
> >    $ msgfmt --tcl -l C -d . /dev/null; echo $?

-- 
Shawn.