GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 124064
Missing check for ngettext in gnome-control-center
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
As Christophe Fergeau pointed out in bug 117997 (concerning DrWright and ngettext usage), that change requires adding a check for ngettext to gnome-control-center/configure.in I'll attach a proposed patch that will halt if ngettext is not present. (My autoconf/automake skills are limited, so be sure to review the patch: I did test it, and it seems to work) The error message configure would output is "ngettext is required" (please give a better suggestion for the message).
Created attachment 20550 [details] [review] Proposed patch to check for ngettext in gnome-control-center/configure.in
The error message should explain people how and where they can get this "ngettext" (or at least give them a pointer on some web resource where they can get more information about the issue)
Ok, how about: "ngettext is required -- it's included with GNU gettext (available from http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/)" Also, I've read in discussions regarding ngettext that it is available on Solaris 9, and that there's a patch from Sun for Solaris 8. Can anyone confirm that? If so, should a note about the patch be included in the message too?
Added L10N keyword for easier searching.
Given that control-center pulls in gnome-vfs which already depends ngettext this test is not terribly important in my mind. However, just to be thoroughly anal I've added the same test as gnome-vfs.