[bug#28423] gnu: Add imb-openmpi.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> You didn’t ask though, did you?  ;-)
>
> I thought I had, twice.  Oh, well, sorry!
>
>>> of the doc string rules for translation, and why they seem to be
>>> different from what gettext say in terms of placeholders in format
>>> strings.  I think that needs documenting anyhow.
>>
>> In po/packages/Makevars, we define only two keywords for translatable
>> strings: ‘synopsis’ and ‘description’.  Thus, xgettext will extract this
>> string:
>>
>>   (synopsis "This is translatable")
>>
>> but it will not extract this:
>>
>>   (synopsis (string-append "This is " "not translatable"))
>
> The question would have been why
>
>   (format-string #f ("Package variant ~a is not translatable" x))

Strings are not applicable.  You probably meant:

  (G_ "Foo ~a bar")

> when the sprintf equivalent would be, as I understand what the gettext
> doc says.

In the example above, if we define ‘G_’ as an xgettext keyword in
‘Makevars’, the string is indeed extracted.  But that’s not what was
happening here.

HTH!

Ludo’.