Bug#538137: gettext: Please allow specifying options for msgmerge in Makevars (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

Hello.

Received this from the Debian BTS:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Guillem Jover <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:20:18 +0200
Subject: Bug#538137: gettext: Please allow specifying options for msgmerge in
    Makevars

Package: gettext
Version: 0.17-6
Severity: wishlist

Hi!

There's no clean way currently to specify additional options for
msgmerge for all invokations. We'd like to be able to use
ÿÿ--previousÿÿ in several project but it can only be set partially by
defining ÿÿMSGMERGE="$MSGMERGE --previousÿÿ in configure.ac after having
called AM_GNU_GETTEXT, but that one does not affect the MSGMERGE
variable in the Makefile.in.in only MSMERGE_UPDATE.

Would be nice to be able to specify additional options in Makevars in
the same way as currently allowed for xgettext.

thanks,
guillem