From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:01:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a Makefile switch to avoid gettext translation in shell scripts
Message-ID: <7v1uqq84es.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120119195222.GA5011@blimp.dmz>

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> Some systems have gettext.sh (GNU gettext) installed, but it is either broken
> or misconfigured in such a way so its output is not usable.
> For instance, on this particular system, a Cygwin installations gettext
> produces no output whatsoever.
>
> In case the users of these systems are unable or not interested in fixing
> them, setting the new Makefile switch should help:
>
>     USE_FALLTHROUGH_GETTEXT_SCHEME=yes
>
> This will replace the translation routines with fallthrough versions, which
> currently used only for regression testing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
> ---

I'll split this into two, the first one only to restructure the code and
the guts of this one that avoids the autodetection.

Also I'd rename this so that:

	$ make USE_GETTEXT_SCHEME=fallthrough
	$ make USE_GETTEXT_SCHEME=gnu

could be used to avoid extra and unnecessary runtime overhead when the
person building git knows what is on the system.