[pve-devel] [PATCH proxmox-i18n 1/2] makefile: prefer using xgettext over msgcat

Maximiliano Sandoval m.sandoval at proxmox.com
Wed Jan 22 13:20:33 CET 2025


For concatenating .pot files. From [1]:

> To concatenate POT files, better use xgettext, not msgcat, because
> msgcat would choke on the undefined charsets in the specified POT
> files.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/msgcat-Invocation.html

Signed-off-by: Maximiliano Sandoval <m.sandoval at proxmox.com>
---
 Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 717203e..90a7453 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ init-%.po: messages.pot
 
 .INTERMEDIATE: messages.pot
 messages.pot: proxmox-widget-toolkit.pot proxmox-mailgateway.pot pve-manager.pot proxmox-backup.pot
-	msgcat $^ > $@
+	xgettext $^ --msgid-bugs-address="<support at proxmox.com>" --output $@
 
 .PHONY: distclean
 distclean: clean
-- 
2.39.5





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