lynx-dev Translation patches

[Webmaster Jim]

Starting to work on integrating the Translation Project (TP) message
files. I've created a patch that does several things:

* truncate French translation file for Lynx standard distribution
* created placeholder po files for Russian and Brazilian Portuguese
* updated po/readme and po/makefile.inn 
* removed some stubs from the Italian placeholder po file

The patch has been uploaded to:

http://jim.spath.com/lynx/lynx-19990828-patch.gz

Note that truncating a 300M file creates a 300M patch :-(

Couple points to note --

I'm working towards a parallel full Lynx distribution file that contains
the latest message catalogs from the TP. Using the placeholders should
allow our distribution build process to do this on the fly. I can't
reach the TP site at the moment, so that part is on hold.

While testing the lynx.patch target, I noticed that doing so before any
changes have been made is an error:

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09:57:58/jim> make lynx.patch
cd  ./.. && cd orig/lynx2-8-3 && { rm -f  config.log  config.status  lynx_cfg.h 
 ;  for I in . src WWW/Library/Implementation; do ( set +e;  ( set -x; cd $I && 
rm -f *.orig *.rej makefile ); : );  done; }
+ cd .
+ rm -f *.orig *.rej makefile
+ cd src
+ rm -f *.orig *.rej makefile
+ cd WWW/Library/Implementation
+ rm -f *.orig *.rej makefile
( cd ./..; echo "%%% Created `date` by target lynx.patch. %%%";  diff -brc 
orig/lynx2-8-3 lynx2-8-3 )  | grep -v '^Common'  | grep -v '^Binary files '  | 
grep -v '^Only ' | tee lynx.patch | grep '^--- lynx2-8-3'
*** Error code 1

Stop.

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Doing make clean didn't remove lynx2-8-3/src/chrtrans/makefile.

The existence of "pt" and "pt_BR" is a problem on my system, or perhaps
it's the content of the pt_BR stub. It core dumps on "lynx -version,"
although the executable will start up without the version flag. I have
been using the version messages to verify the NLS components. Here's
some details (I'm still testing this):

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10:45:16/jim> ./lynx -version


Lynx Version 2.8.3dev.7 (26 Aug 1999)
Built on netbsd1.4 Aug 28 1999 10:44:22

O copyright prendeu pela universidade de Kansas, de CERN, e de outros 
contribuinte.
Distribuído sob a licença do general público de GNU.
Veja http://lynx.browser.org / e a ajuda em linha para mais informação.

10:45:20/jim> echo $LANG 
pt
10:45:26/jim> export LANG=fr
10:45:29/jim> ./lynx -version


Lynx Version 2.8.3dev.7 (26 Aug 1999)
Built on netbsd1.4 Aug 28 1999 10:44:22

Copyright s'est tenu par l'université du Kansas, du CERN, et d'autres 
contribuants
Distribué sous le permis de grand public de GNU
Voyez http://lynx.browser.org / et d'aide en ligne pour plus d'information.
10:45:30/jim> export LANG=pt_BR
10:45:35/jim> ./lynx -version


Segmentation fault (core dumped)

10:45:36/jim> gdb lynx lynx.core
GNU gdb 4.17
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386--netbsd"...
Core was generated by `lynx'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld.so...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.12.40...done.
#0  0x401a042a in memchr ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x401a042a in memchr ()
#1  0x2 in ?? ()
#2  0x4018d3c2 in printf ()
#3  0x26b42 in version_fun (next_arg=0x0) at ./LYMain.c:2841
#4  0x28a93 in parse_arg (argv=0xefbfd6d0, i=0xefbfd68c) at ./LYMain.c:3706
#5  0x24947 in main (argc=2, argv=0xefbfd6cc) at ./LYMain.c:1555

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"Cheers"

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Marvin the Paranoid Android.