By not limiting --add-comments= via an argument, xgettext is far
too aggressive (one might say stupid) when extracting comments.
It doesn't even limit extraction to a single preceeding comment.
Here is an example showing a program source excerpt and the
resulting .pot excerpt:
--- program source ----------------------------------------
close (0); dup (in_fd[0]); /* set the stdin to the in pipe */
close (1); dup (out_fd[1]); /* set the stdout to the out pipe */
close (2); dup (out_fd[1]); /* set the stderr to the out pipe */
execvp (args[0], args); /* exec gdb */
perror (_("exec failed"));
--- resulting .pot ----------------------------------------
#. set the stdin to the in pipe
#. set the stdout to the out pipe
#. set the stderr to the out pipe
#. exec gdb
#: ps/stacktrace.c:28 ps/stacktrace.c:63
msgid "exec failed"
msgstr ""
This commit will enable pass comments to translators near gettext
directive to .pot file. For example;
/* TRANSLATORS: this is visible in .pot file */
printf(_("to be translated"));
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
