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-rw-r--r--bfd/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--bfd/sysdep.h12
-rw-r--r--opcodes/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--opcodes/opintl.h13
4 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 03fc856..798ed4d 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-05-31 Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com>
+
+ * opintl.h (_(String)): Explain why dgettext is used instead
+ of gettext.
+
2000-05-31 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
* elf.c (_bfd_elf_slurp_version_tables): Correct reading of version
diff --git a/bfd/sysdep.h b/bfd/sysdep.h
index 77b5e50..bf3eac0 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)
diff --git a/opcodes/ChangeLog b/opcodes/ChangeLog
index 08b2c16..a2c890f 100644
--- a/opcodes/ChangeLog
+++ b/opcodes/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-05-31 Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com>
+
+ * opintl.h (_(String)): Explain why dgettext is used instead of
+ gettext.
+
2000-05-30 Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com>
* opintl.h (gettext, dgettext, dcgettext, textdomain,
diff --git a/opcodes/opintl.h b/opcodes/opintl.h
index 55a989a..492fc1a 100644
--- a/opcodes/opintl.h
+++ b/opcodes/opintl.h
@@ -12,6 +12,19 @@
#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
+ libopcodes. 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 opcodes library, (eg OBJDUMP). Hence we use dgettext (PACKAGE, String)
+ and define PACKAGE to be 'opcodes'. (See the code in configure). */
# define _(String) dgettext (PACKAGE, String)
# ifdef gettext_noop
# define N_(String) gettext_noop (String)