Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] util: fix translation of error message strings

The arguments to the N_() macro must only ever be a literal string. It is not possible to use macro arguments, or use macro string concatenation in this context. The N_() macro is a no-op whose only purpose is to act as a marker for xgettext when it extracts translatable strings from the source code. Anything other than a literal string will be silently ignored by xgettext. Unfortunately this means that the clever MSG, MSG2 & MSG_EXISTS macros used for building up error message strings have prevented any of the error messages getting marked for translation. We must sadly, revert to a more explicit listing of strings for now. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/util/virerror.c | 431 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 303 insertions(+), 128 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/virerror.c b/src/util/virerror.c index b08427005f..3cdc825157 100644 --- a/src/util/virerror.c +++ b/src/util/virerror.c @@ -908,138 +908,313 @@ typedef struct {

+ [VIR_ERR_XML_DETAIL] = { + N_("parsers error"),

+ "%s" },