Re: [libvirt] libvirt-guests output

On 12/09/2010 11:21 AM, Laurent Léonard wrote: Because you aren't using bash. Bash supports $"" as a way to provide gettext translation of strings into the user's preferred location. Init scripts written for Fedora-based systems assume that /bin/sh is bash, and therefore that $"" is usable. Dash does not understand $"" (POSIX says it has unspecified behavior), and treats it as a literal '$' followed by a normal (untranslated) "". It's probably a nice goal to port libvirt-guests to non-bash /bin/sh, but it may take a lot more work; in particular, there are TONS of existing init scripts on Fedora that assume bash extensions, which libvirt-guests used as its starting point. And I'm not quite sure what the POSIX-compliant replacement for $"" string translation would be. There are two problems to solve - how to get xgettext to recognize a string that needs translation, and how to use gettext(1) (rather than bash's magic $"" automatically calling gettext(3)) to do the translation at runtime. -- Eric Blake eblake(a)redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org