On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 10:15:24 +0000 Ben Fowler <ben.the.mole@...400...> wrote:
On 11/5/05, Steven P. Ulrick <lists@...1052...> wrote:
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 09:05:47 +0000 Ben Fowler <ben.the.mole@...400...> wrote:
My guess is that there is 'something wrong' with some (many) of your .po files.
I "suspect" that nothing is wrong with my .po files. The reason being, I have tried to compile Inkscape on multiple occasions after removing the po directory and re-updating, and I have also tried with completely fresh checkouts of Inkscape from CVS. make still crashes with similar errors, even with fresh checkouts of the po dir, and fresh checkouts of Inkscape.
That is very clear. Re-updating, and as an extreme instance of that, a completely fresh checkout are both excellent and very good, respectively, ways of approaching a problem like this, and are recommended by me without reservation.
I would suggest that you cd to the directory where the problem occurs, e.g.
$ cd /home/steve/CVS/Assorted-CVS-Modules/inkscape/po
(Incidentally, you are more or less unique in using 'CVS' as a directory name, but I doubt that that is the cause of any difficulties here. (I use 'SF' as a place to keep projects that I have checked out of sourceforge)),
and check that your files are up to date with
$ cvs -Q up -dP $ cvs -Q diff
Hello, Ben There was no output when I did what you said above.
Next, try to make, just to check that things are still not working
$ make
(Incidentally, it looks as if your make operation is bailing out with errors rather than crashing. If you really are getting a crash then you may have a more fundamental problem, and you are not going to be helped (much) by these instructions); and perhaps make -n to look at the commands that are failing
I am sure that I am guilty of using the word "crash" when it does not apply. I will be seeing my brother Dave today (the family Linux guru) and I will have him educate me on the proper usage of the term "crash"
$ make -n > make.out $ head make.out
The output of "head make.out" is as follows: [steve@...1062... po]$ head make.out file=./`echo mk | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c -o $file mk.po file=./`echo nb | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c -o $file nb.po file=./`echo nl | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c -o $file nl.po file=./`echo nn | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c -o $file nn.po file=./`echo pa | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c -o $file pa.po
I am going to make a guess that the first command that fails is:
file=./`echo pt_BR | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c -o $file pt_BR.poWhat happens is you run by hand:
$ /usr/bin/gmsgfmt -o$ pt_BR.gmo pt_BR.po
I do not even have a "/usr/bin/gmsgfmt" command. I did discover that I do have "/usr/bin/msgfmt" and that that comes from the gettext RPM. If this is a problem, let me know how to get "/usr/bin/gmsgfmt"
I discovered that there are no .gmo files for ANY of the files mentioned in the output of "head make.out" Here are the only .po files that have .gmo files (I understand the the .gmo files are not created until "make" is run): am.gmo az.gmo be.gmo ca.gmo cs.gmo da.gmo de.gmo el.gmo es.gmo es_MX.gmo et.gmo eu.gmo fr.gmo ga.gmo gl.gmo hu.gmo it.gmo ja.gmo
You might be interested in the output of "make" that I ran from inkscape/po: [steve@...1062... po]$ make file=./`echo mk | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c -o $file mk.po file=./`echo nb | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c -o $file nb.po file=./`echo nl | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c -o $file nl.po file=./`echo nn | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c -o $file nn.po file=./`echo pa | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c -o $file pa.po file=./`echo pl | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c -o $file pl.po file=./`echo pt | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c -o $file pt.po file=./`echo pt_BR | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c -o $file pt_BR.po pt_BR.po:2001: message catalog has plural form translations... pt_BR.po:5: ...but header entry lacks a "plural=EXPRESSION" attribute pt_BR.po:2001: message catalog has plural form translations... pt_BR.po:5: ...but header entry lacks a "nplurals=INTEGER" attribute make: *** [pt_BR.gmo] Error 1
You will notice that pt_BR IS mentioned.
Do you get an error that you can fix?
Like I said, I have no "/usr/bin/gmsgfmt", so I can't answer that question.
What do you get for::
$ /usr/bin/gmsgfmt --version gmsgfmt (GNU gettext-tools) 0.14.4 ....
I ran rpm -qa | grep gettext and I only have gettext and gettext-devel installed. I did run "/usr/bin/msgfmt --version" and I got the following: [steve@...1062... ~]$ /usr/bin/msgfmt --version msgfmt (GNU gettext-tools) 0.14.1 Copyright (C) 1995-1998, 2000-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Written by Ulrich Drepper.
What do you get for::
$ grep -n plural pt_BR.po 2000:msgid_plural "<b>%d</b> objects found (out of <b>%d</b>), %s match." 3227:msgid_plural "Removed <b>%i</b> unused definitions in <defs>." 3685:msgid_plural "Sending message; %u messages remaining in send queue." 3696:msgid_plural "Receiving change; %u changes left to process." 3802:msgid_plural "%u changes in receive queue." 3809:msgid_plural "%u changes in send queue." 4340:msgid_plural "" 4358:msgid_plural "<b>%i</b> of <b>%i</b> nodes selected; %s. %s." 4365:msgid_plural "<b>%i</b> of <b>%i</b> nodes selected. %s." 4879:msgid_plural "<b>%i</b> objects selected" 4891:msgid_plural "%s in <b>%i</b> layers. %s." 5045:msgid_plural "<b>Group</b> of <b>%d</b> objects" 5081:msgid_plural "<b>Path</b> (%i nodes)" 5100:#. string as needed to deal with an localized plural forms. 5109:msgid_plural "<b>Star</b> with %d vertices" 5116:msgid_plural "<b>Polygon</b> with %d vertices"
[steve@...1062... po]$ grep -n plural pt_BR.po 2000:msgid_plural "<b>%d</b> objects found (out of <b>%d</b>), %s match." 3227:msgid_plural "Removed <b>%i</b> unused definitions in <defs>." 3685:msgid_plural "Sending message; %u messages remaining in send queue." 3696:msgid_plural "Receiving change; %u changes left to process." 3802:msgid_plural "%u changes in receive queue." 3809:msgid_plural "%u changes in send queue." 4340:msgid_plural "" 4358:msgid_plural "<b>%i</b> of <b>%i</b> nodes selected; %s. %s." 4365:msgid_plural "<b>%i</b> of <b>%i</b> nodes selected. %s." 4879:msgid_plural "<b>%i</b> objects selected" 4891:msgid_plural "%s in <b>%i</b> layers. %s." 5045:msgid_plural "<b>Group</b> of <b>%d</b> objects" 5081:msgid_plural "<b>Path</b> (%i nodes)" 5100:#. string as needed to deal with an localized plural forms. 5109:msgid_plural "<b>Star</b> with %d vertices" 5116:msgid_plural "<b>Polygon</b> with %d vertices"
I get very similar results for pt.po .
It is possible that your gettext-tools installation can handle plural expressions in some cases, but not in all cases.
Maybe the problem is with Fedora (are other Fedora users able to compile Inkscape?).
Maybe we need to check for versions and/or capabilities of gettext-tools.
I would suspect that myself, since I have "/usr/bin/msgfmt" installed but I don't have "/usr/bin/gmsgfmt" installed. Since I have the weekend off, I will try compiling gettext from the most recent source I can get a hold of. I will even check into various Fedora Core 3/Rawhide SRPMS. If I have any luck, I will get back to with the output of "/usr/bin/gmsgfmt -o$ pt_BR.gmo pt_BR.po"
I am sorry to give you homework to do when you may be feeling ignored by the Inkscape crew, but could you make it your care and delight to personally download the 0.43 release candidates for us as they appear and check that they work with your installation of Fedora. Whilst Fedora is not as widespread in my part of the world as Ubuntu or Mandrake, it most certainly is one that new Linux users are pointed to, and I am sure that we should walk the extra mile to double check that our realeases work on that distro.
Not only would I love to do that for Inkscape and the community, but I actually will :)
Better still, of course, would be for a Fedora dev to make Fedora rpms and upload them to Inkscape. Perhaps there is a dogfood possibility: Can the Fedora release team be persuaded to use Inkscape for making icons and graphics ...
Do get back to us if there are problems.
Ben