[bug#46044] [PATCH] Improvements to handling po files

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi!

Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:

> here are two patches to improve our handling of po files. Yesterday I
> pushed again new po files that were broken, and I didn't notice. The
> first patch ensure po files are normalized. The TP automatically
> normalized po, but weblate doesn't, using the indent method instead.
> This creates huge patches like yesterday. Instead, normalizing ensures
> we only see relevant changes.

Makes sense.

> The second patch adds a check-po target to the Makefile that runs
> msgfmt on every po file we have, to make sure they are at least
> correct. That's not enough for manual translations, but that can be
> spotted easily when running "make". This would have spotted the issues
> I introduced yesterday.

Yes, or running “make as-derivation” (sometimes just “make” isn’t enough
to catch issues it seems, not sure why.)

>>From 42aa42512dba281f3d33e7883c922c0f5704bee4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 21:28:28 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Makefile.am: Normalize downloaded po files.
>
> * Makefile.am (make-download-po-rule): Normalize po files.

OK!

>>From 8be36b2d651be108bc1e7fe7790f889dd19c679d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 21:24:23 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Makefile.am: Add check-po rule.
>
> * Makefile.am (make-check-po-rule): New definition.
> Add top-level 'eval' and calls to 'make-check-po-rule' to generate
> 'check-po.DOMAIN' rules.
> (check-po): New rule.

[...]

> +# make-check-po-rule DOMAIN DIRECTORY [FILE-NAME-PREFIX]
> +define make-check-po-rule

Could you add a line or two above the definition explaining what it
does?

> +check-po.$(1):
> +	if [ -f "$(top_srcdir)/$(2)/LINGUAS" ]; then				\
> +	  LINGUAS="`grep -v '^[[:blank:]]*#' < $(top_srcdir)/$(2)/LINGUAS`" ;	\
> +	else									\
> +	  LINGUAS="`(cd $(top_srcdir)/$(2);					\
> +	    for i in *.po; do echo $$$$i; done) | cut -d . -f 2`" ;		\
> +	fi ;									\
> +	for lang in $$$$LINGUAS; do						\
> +	  if [ -f "$(top_srcdir)/$(2)/$(3)$$$$lang.po" ]; \
> +	  then									\
> +	    if ! msgfmt -c "$(top_srcdir)/$(2)/$(3)$$$$lang.po" ; \
> +		then \
> +		  exit 1 ; \
> +	    fi ; \
> +	  fi ;									\

Would be great if you could align backslashes.  :-)

Otherwise LGTM, thanks!

Ludo’.