Re: Outdated po files

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

Le 23 septembre 2019 19:46:26 GMT+02:00, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> a écrit :
>Hi Julien,
>
>> This is not an error, but rather a warning. They are expected because
>> their is one po file for two texinfo files, they cannot have the same
>> number of entries. So the message is harmless, but I can't find an
>> option to hide it specifically.
>
>Ah, thanks. I thought the po file problem was the reason for the error
>that follows, but from your explanation it looks like this is just a
>coincidence. However, it does look as if the error is related
>to po files in some way:
>
>rm -f en@boldquot.gmo &&
>/gnu/store/6z2rl8vrbcghvwcjdcf740b8l2cgx25a-profile/bin/msgfmt -c
>--statistics --verbose -o en@boldquot.gmo en@boldquot.po
>en@boldquot.po:2848: format specifications in 'msgstr[0]' are not a
>subset of those in 'msgid_plural'
>en@boldquot.po:2855: format specifications in 'msgstr[0]' are not a
>subset of those in 'msgid_plural'
>/gnu/store/6z2rl8vrbcghvwcjdcf740b8l2cgx25a-profile/bin/msgfmt: found 2
>fatal errors
>   en@boldquot.po: 915 translated messages.
>   make[3]: *** [Makefile:201: en@boldquot.gmo] Error 1
>make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/hinsen/guix-from-source/guix/po/guix'
>   make[2]: *** [Makefile:238: stamp-po] Error 2
>make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/hinsen/guix-from-source/guix/po/guix'
>   make[1]: *** [Makefile:4865: check-recursive] Error 1
>   make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/hinsen/guix-from-source/guix'
>
>Cheers,
>  Konrad

I'm not sure what the issue is here. I've seen that before when I tried to add a file to the list of translated sources, but it had an incorrect plural form. Gettext thought there was a different number of placeholders, but actually one of them is not a placeholder.