i18n of egcs

[kthomas@gwdg.de (Philipp Thomas)]

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Jeff,
I've nearly finished translating egcs's messages into german and will send the
translation to people from the german translation team who volunteered to
proofread my work in a day or two. I *still* haven't got any answer from
François Pinoir, the maintainer for the FSF translation project, so this will
likely be the only translation for the time being.

Some points should be noted for the future though. The generation of the basic
gcc.pot needs a modified gettext 0.10.35 (patch in ABOUT-GCC-NLS).
So in order to not require that an egcs user has to patch his gettext package,
your release scripts should generate a gcc.pot for inclusion into the egcs
releases, as the modified xgettext is only need for the extraction of the
messages from the source code. Updating the translations (xx.po) and compiling
them can be done with an unmodified gettext package.

The second point is that it should be stated somewhere in the top level
documentation, that anyone who uses NLS and modifies the code needs the
patched gettext.

I think it would be a good idea to modify the top level configure to run sub
level configures when called with --help to get a list of the optional
parameters that may be passed to them. What do you think ?




Philipp Thomas

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