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author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2000-05-31 18:32:07 +0000 |
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committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2000-05-31 18:32:07 +0000 |
commit | c0ae4cccdd190ac5bdb579a7519ff8ff46fdc805 (patch) | |
tree | 0de17889d9b88c27a9b453ae70d5f12a6eaa2f92 /bfd/sysdep.h | |
parent | 321fa0973d9d488fd980ce5ec890da6995a1c4e8 (diff) | |
download | binutils-gdb-c0ae4cccdd190ac5bdb579a7519ff8ff46fdc805.tar.gz |
Add comment describoing why dgettext() is used in _() macro.
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diff --git a/bfd/sysdep.h b/bfd/sysdep.h index 77b5e50a9c3..bf3eac03ccb 100644 --- a/bfd/sysdep.h +++ b/bfd/sysdep.h @@ -126,6 +126,18 @@ extern char *getenv (); #ifdef ENABLE_NLS #include <libintl.h> +/* Note the use of dgetext() and PACKAGE here, rather than gettext(). + + This is because the code in this directory is used to build a library which + will be linked with code in other directories to form programs. We want to + maintain a seperate translation file for this directory however, rather + than being forced to merge it with that of any program linked to libbfd. + This is a library, so it cannot depend on the catalog currently loaded. + + In order to do this, we have to make sure that when we extract messages we + use the OPCODES domain rather than the domain of the program that included + the bfd library, (eg OBJDUMP). Hence we use dgettext (PACKAGE, String) + and define PACKAGE to be 'bfd'. (See the code in configure). */ #define _(String) dgettext (PACKAGE, String) #ifdef gettext_noop #define N_(String) gettext_noop (String) |