Re: trans-coord/gnun philosophy/po/why-audio-format...

[Yavor Doganov]

Явор Доганов wrote:
> 
> No Italian page will be built unless you commit
> server/po/{banner,footer-text}.po and add `it' in TEMPLATE_LINGUAS.

Wow, it got built; I'll install it shortly.  That's a bug in GNUN
(fixed now).

Kaloian, it seems the m4 version at fencepost is buggy, which leads to
erroneous generation of this Italian translation -- it expands the
`format' builtin in the translation links filenames to the empty
string.

address@hidden:~$ m4 --version
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.11
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Rene' Seindal.
$ echo format-foo > format-bug
$ m4 format-bug 
format-foo

address@hidden:~$ m4 --version
GNU M4 1.4.4
Written by Rene' Seindal.

Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
$ echo format-foo > format-bug
$ m4 format-bug 
-foo

Ouch!  The oldest version I have on my machines is 1.4.8 and I can't
repdoduce the bug with it, so I'll bump the dependency in README and
will install 1.4.11 at fp.  I suspect this bug was fixed in 1.4.6, so
if you have it somewhere you could relax it.

On the long run, we should invoke m4 with `--prefix-builtins' to avoid
unfortunate things like this.