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Diffstat (limited to 'bfd')
| -rw-r--r-- | bfd/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | bfd/sysdep.h | 12 |
2 files changed, 17 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) |