Re: [libvirt] [RFC PATCH] build: avoid %zu in translated strings
On 08/17/2010 04:05 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
Mingw64 lacks %zu, and has the unfortunate setup where
sizeof(long)==4 but sizeof(size_t)==8. Since gnulib's
printf-posix module is not LGPLv2+, the best we can do
is manually cast to the only portable int type known to
hold size_t, and rely on gnulib's inttypes.h.
- _("Failed to write %zu bytes
to "
+ _("Failed to write %" PRIuMAX " bytes to
"
Hmmm. Use of PRIuMAX in a translated string produces a .pot file that
refers to the special string <PRIuMAX>, and which requires the
need-formatstring-macros option passed to AM_GNU_GETTEXT in configure.ac
to be universally supported. If I'm reading gettext.git history
correctly, need-formatstring-macros was added in gettext 0.11.4 (commit
8b45c5df), but had bugs until 0.17 (commit 4e34b2ac); which is newer
than the oldest version of gettext that libvirt is currently willing to
support. I'm not sure if you get a fixed gettext.m4 by using just using
gnulib's gettext-h module, but using gnulib's gettext module is out of
the question since it would force the use of gettext 0.18.
Bruno, am I missing any details about how to properly use the gettext
formatstring-macros option, and which gettext versions are supported, if
I missed something in my sleuthing through gettext.git?
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Eric Blake eblake(a)redhat.com +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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