From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: bug#24442: gettext: No PO mode for Emacs (or wrong description) Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 10:55:35 +0900 Message-ID: <87lgyigiy0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160915070426.GI5711@sax.terramar.selidor.net> <87r38g5krf.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39317) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bncl2-0003ou-20 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 22:32:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bncl0-000388-NX for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 22:32:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:55821) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bncl0-000383-Kv for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 22:32:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bncl0-0003AX-Fc for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 22:32:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87r38g5krf.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Mon, 19 Sep 2016 11:58:12 +0300") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Alex Kost Cc: 24442@debbugs.gnu.org Hi! Alex Kost skribis: > Ivan Vilata i Balaguer (2016-09-15 09:04 +0200) wrote: > >> The description for ``gettext@0.19.8`` (current) includes this sentence: >> >> It provides translators with the means to create message catalogs, >> as well as an Emacs mode to work with them, and a runtime library to >> load translated messages from the catalogs. >> >> However, no output of the package includes the files for Emacs. > > Thanks for the report! This happens because there is no emacs > dependency (input) in 'gettext' package definition, so Emacs is not > found during 'configure' phase (as can be seen in the log=C2=B9: =C2=ABch= ecking > for emacs... no=C2=BB), so elisp files are not compiled and installed. > > I would say this can simply be fixed by adding: > > (native-inputs `(("emacs" ,emacs-minimal))) > > to the gettext package definition (also (gnu packages emacs) module > should be used), and I checked it by making a variant of the gettext > package with this line; however when I tried it on a real gettext > package, I saw that a whole world will be rebuilt (apparently it is a > 'core-updates' thing). And I realized that emacs (even its minimal > variant) will probably be a too heavy dependency for such a core thing. > > So perhaps it is time to make 'gettext-minimal' and to use it as the > dependency for other packages and 'gettext' (with Emacs tools) intended > to be installed by users (as it is done for bash/bash-minimal). WDYT? > (this is a question for Guix developers) I think it=E2=80=99s a good idea; in commencement.scm, we=E2=80=99ll need t= o inherit from gettext-minimal to avoid the Emacs dependency. Most of the packages that currently depend on gettext will have to be changed to gettext-minimal, as you wrote. When that it=E2=80=99s done, we can happily add all sorts of dependencies to gettext, including additional languages for which it provides bindings. Sounds like a plan no? Another option would be to hack a phase that copies the .el files to the output, without compiling them, but I don=E2=80=99t think it=E2=80=99s as n= ice as the above plan. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.