Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add infrastructure for translating Git with gettext

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 14, 2010, 20:26 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTikuSTKbPkTrRtw4fvNUxlh32uhTlbq0g-q35dng@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1275846453-3805-2-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 17:47, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:

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> +# Try to use libintl's gettext.sh, or fall back to English if we
> +# can't.
> +. gettext.sh
> +
> +if test $? -eq 0 && test -z "$GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_TEST_FALLBACKS"
> +then

It turns out that this doesn't actually work, and I can't find a workaround. In Bash and Solaris's /bin/sh this executes until "dies here". The problem is that I can't use the subshell trick, since the gettext.sh inclusion has to be done in the current shell (I checked, tests will fail).

    #!/bin/sh
    (. does-not-exist.sh)
    echo "A subshell made it! ret = $?"
    . does-not-exist.sh
  # dies here
    echo "A real shell made it! ret = $?"

Is there some clever shellscript trick that I'm missing, or will I have to resort to modifying the file at `make' time for this to work everywhere?