Re: Build failures on Ubuntu due to gettext

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:38:04PM +0000, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> On Dec/07/2009, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> > So I would apply your patch, after understanding that it's only for
> 
> one more thing Colin. What do you think to not apply your patch and
> apply the attached patch?
> 
> It force that the argument 1 of _ and N_ is a c-format (in this way
> appears in grub.pot). This is, IMO, correct approach. And then msgfmt -c
> checks the number of arguments.

I really think that this is incorrect, I'm afraid. I've certainly never
seen any other project do this. There's no reason to restrict _ and N_
only to be used by printf-a-likes.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden