The autotool provides a simple mechanism which allows us to move ("divert")
the checks we do on the user arguments to the beginning of the script, yet
without needing to scatter the code.
This is good because we can raise errors very fast, user do not have to
wait until many other checks have passed before knowing he has to correct
his argument list; yet on our side we can keep related things together.
Signed-off-by: Christophe CURIS <christophe.curis@free.fr>
The library did not propose the mechanisms to be translated, this patch is
creating the structure in autoconf/automake and the translation directory
so its messages can be also translated.
Signed-off-by: Christophe CURIS <christophe.curis@free.fr>
When people cherry-pick the languages they want to install, they certainly
do not care for man pages in other languages. So, instead of always
installing them, the configure script will now automatically detect which
ones need to be installed.
Took opportunity to add a section in the I18N manual to invite contributors
to think about the man pages if contribute to translations.
Signed-off-by: Christophe CURIS <christophe.curis@free.fr>
In order to improve the amount of things that are checked by the make
distcheck command, this patch enables support for I18N with all the
languages that are supported.
To achieve this, this patch adds the non-standard special case LINGUAS='*'
which automatically enable all known languages.
Signed-off-by: Christophe CURIS <christophe.curis@free.fr>
Renamed it to '--disable-xlocale' because the original name is misleading
about what the option really is for (it sets locale for X, not locales in
general) and updated its documentation;
Added checks to report incorrect uses to the user;
It is now possible to use '--enable-xlocale' to explicitely request for the
feature, so configure would stop if it were not found.
Signed-off-by: Christophe CURIS <christophe.curis@free.fr>
The idea is to include consistency check to warn the user if he is not
using it properly, instead of silently misbehaving;
Updated code style to use Autoconf macros for consistency.
Took opportunity to remove the hacky setting inside 'config-paths.h' where
it is a bit out of place, in favour of a standard DEFINE in the 'config.h'.
Include in the i18n documentation the explanation on how Window Maker
translates the menus, both when the 'menu-textdomain' option is used and
when it is not.
Signed-off-by: Christophe CURIS <christophe.curis@free.fr>
The program may not be installed because it is not needed for non-dev
activities, so it is better to check at the beginning than to let the
compilation fail later. The check is done only if the user has specified
that he wants to install translations.
Took the opportunity to make the generation of "mo" file follow the silent
rules in Makefiles if user enabled them.
Signed-off-by: Christophe <curis@Ares.blacknet.hell>
The main change is to use Autoconf's syntax for consistency;
Now the detected program is used in the makefiles (user has the possibility
to change the name of the command);
A conditional is used to avoid enabling make targets that would fail if
the command does not exist.
Took opportunity to implement the silent-rules compliance to POT generation
rules.
Signed-off-by: Christophe CURIS <christophe.curis@free.fr>
The code was moved to a dedicated file (wm_i18n.m4) to reduce the size of
configure.ac;
It now searches for gettext+libintl only if LINGUAS is specified, because
there is no need for them otherwise;
The list of supported locales is created automatically from the list of
files present in the source tree, so there won't be problem forgetting to
update the variables when a new language is added, or removed because
one is considered outdated;
The new syntax is now using as much as possible Autoconf's syntax to ensure
consistency and better portability;
Took opportunity to improve the language check loop to make it smaller and
to tell when a locale that the user asked for is not fully supported.
Signed-off-by: Christophe CURIS <christophe.curis@free.fr>
