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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {gettext/gettext-devel/libgettextpo0/libintl8/libasprintf0}-0.17-1


gettext is the GNU package which provides 'national language support'
for other programs. It includes a number of utility programs.

These should be upgraded together with the libiconv packages.

    libiconv-1.12-1
    libiconv2-1.12-1
    libcharset1-1.12-1

    gettext-0.17-1
    gettext-devel-0.17-1
    libintl8-0.17-1
    libgettextpo0-0.17-1
    libasprintf0-0.17-1

CHANGES:

* Routine update to 0.17 upstream release
* Removed all references to 'relocatable' from .cygport
  so that -src package can be (re)built using stock
  cygport-0.4.2.
* Detailed changes listed below.

TESTSUITE RESULTS:
gettext-tools
===================================================================
All 300 tests passed (27 tests were not run)

gettext-tools/gnulib-tests
===================================================================
All 47 tests passed
(2 tests were not run)
ASIDE: all tests fail when gettext is compiled with
       --enable-relocation (because the makefile in the gnulib-tests
      directory doesn;t have the appropriate hooks to support building
      relocatable executables -- but the config.h and DEFS are such
      that the source code "expects" those hooks to be present. [1]
.     However, the official cygwin package i  /not/ compiled using
      that flag.

[1] gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H <stripped lots of -I paths> -O2 -pipe
 -MT test-argmatch.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/test-argmatch.Tpo -c -o
test-argmatch.o /path/to/test-argmatch.c
/path/to/test-argmatch.c: In function `main':
/path/to/test-argmatch.c:68: error: `INSTALLDIR' undeclared (first use
in this function)


gettext-runtime
===================================================================
All 1 tests passed

gettext-rpath
===================================================================
All 30 tests passed
ASIDE: this is a little deceptive. If gettext-0.15 is installed when
       gettext-0.17 is built and tested, then all rpath tests pass.
       However, if gettext-0.17 is installed, and gettext-0.17 is
       (re)built and (re)tested, then all tests involving DLLs FAIL!
       I haven't figured out why that is, yet; somehow the $PATH is
       not getting set when the test executables are run. [1]

       This could simply be related to the fact that I re-autotooled
       gettext to use libtool-2.2 and autoconf-2.63 ... and maybe
       gettext's .m4 files aren't /quite/ ready for that yet. But
       that's just a guess.

[1] /path/toutoconf-lib-link/tests/tstdir/rp3bbb-build4/usez.exe: error
while loading shared libraries: cygrpathx-0.dll: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory

(You only get this diagnostic when running under cygwin-1.7. On
cygwin-1.5 the tests fail, but no error message. Except on Vista,
where you get a popup window, six times. Ugh.)

       It seems that (a) there is some "leakage" from the installed
       .m4 files into the test environment, and (b) there something
       broken in the gettext-0.17 config.rpath.  I'll keep working
       the issue, but we've waited long enough for a modern gettext.

-- 
Chuck

====================================================================

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============================================================
Version 0.17 - November 2007

* License: The gettext related programs and tools are now
  licensed under the GPL version 3, instead of the GPL
  version 2. The libintl library continues to be licensed
  under LGPL.

* PO file format: The Project-Id-Version field in the header
  entry may now already be filled in the POT file. In this
  case, the translators don't need to fill it in. xgettext
  has new options --package-name and --package-version that
  allow to specify the package name and version from a
  Makefile.

* Colorized PO files: The msgcat program has new options
  --color and --style that produce a colorized PO file
  output, where keywords, strings, comments, or format
  directives can be highlighted. See the documentation
  section "Highlighting parts of PO files" for more info.

* gettextize now has a --po-dir option that allows several
  PO directories to be updated all together.

* Programming languages support:
  - Contexts (msgctxt) are now also supported for Java and C#.
  - C# with Qt: The support for Qt format strings has been
    updated for Qt 4.
  - C++ with KDE: xgettext has a new option --kde that
    triggers the recognition and marking of KDE 4 format
    strings.

* Autoconf macros:
  - A new macro AM_XGETTEXT_OPTION can be used as an
    alternative to modifying po/Makevars.

* libgettextpo library:
  - New functions are available for querying the list of
    supported format types.
  - The functions po_message_comments and
    po_message_extracted_comments return a multiline string
    where each line no longer starts with a redundant space.
    The leading space in every comment line is now stripped
    while reading the PO file. - Conversely, when you pass a
    multiline string to the function po_message_set_comments
    or po_message_set_extracted_comments, you normally don't
    pass a space at the beginning of each line, because such
    spaces are no longer trimmed during output.

* Documentation:
  - The "Users" chapter has been completely rewritten.
  - New section "Highlighting parts of PO files".
  - A complete example showing the use of GNU gettext in
    Java with the Qt/Jambi GUI toolkit has been added.

============================================================
Version 0.16.1 - November 2006

* Bug fix in the gettext.m4 autoconf macros.

============================================================
Version 0.16 - October 2006

* Interoperability with automake-1.10.

* msgmerge has a new option --previous that has the effect
  of saving the previous msgid of message when making them
  fuzzy. These previous msgids are stored in the resulting
  PO file, using a pseudo-comment syntax like this:


  #, fuzzy
  #| msgid "too many arguments"
  msgid "too few arguments"
  msgstr "trop d'arguments"

  The translator then only needs to compare the previous
  and the current msgid ("too many arguments" and "too few
  arguments"), and infer which parts of the translation she
  needs to change.

  msgattrib has a new option --clear-previous that removes
  these #| lines.

* msgmerge is faster now on CPUs with multiple execution
  units, if compiled with GCC 4.2 or newer.

* msgcmp now ignores fuzzy and untranslated messages in the
  PO file. Previously it considered fuzzy and untranslated
  messages the same way as translated messages, which was
  hardly useful. The previous behaviour can be obtained
  through the options --use-fuzzy --use-untranslated.

* gettextize, when invoked without --intl option, now
  installs only the .m4 files that are needed: gettext.m4,
  iconv.m4, lib-ld.m4, lib-link.m4, lib-prefix.m4, nls.m4,
  po.m4, progtest.m4.

* gettextize no longer creates symbolic links by default; it
  makes file copies instead. The option --copy is removed.
  You can get back the flawed symlinking behaviour by
  specifying the --symlink option.

* Autoconf macros:
  - The gettext autoconf macros now require autoconf 2.52 or
    newer and GNU m4 1.4.5 or newer.
  - A new autoconf macro AM_GNU_GETTEXT_INTL_SUBDIR is
    added. It allows to specify the presence of an intl/
    subdirectory outside the AM_GNU_GETTEXT invocation.
  - A new autoconf macro AM_GNU_GETTEXT_NEED is added. It
    allows to specify the requirements relating to the GNU
    gettext implementation outside the AM_GNU_GETTEXT
    invocation.

* The libgettextpo library no longer exports symbols that
  could clash with symbols of the application that uses it.

* Vastly improved French translations. Thanks to Christophe
  Combelles.


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