Re: Fwd: Duplicate strings in the ld-2.17.90 PO file

[Alan Modra]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 02:32:19PM +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote:
> >1. There are some duplicate strings, varying only in whitespace.  
> >You may want to reduce these: they can also result in varying  
> >translations (I only noticed them because I was reviewing the whole  
> >file).
> >
> >(a)
> >#: emultempl/armcoff.em:72
> >#, c-format
> >msgid "  --support-old-code   Support interworking with old code\n"
> >
> >#: emultempl/pe.em:325
> >#, c-format
> >msgid "  --support-old-code                 Support interworking  
> >with old code\n"

The reason for this is that these strings are part of blocks of help
text.  pe has a number of fairly long options, so the descriptive text
is indented rather more than that needed for armcoff.

> >#: emultempl/armcoff.em:121
> >#, c-format
> >msgid "Errors encountered processing file %s"
> >
> >#: emultempl/pe.em:1334
> >#, c-format
> >msgid "Errors encountered processing file %s\n"

Seems to be fixed already.

> >#: ldexp.c:1054
> >#: ldexp.c:1079
> >#, c-format
> >msgid "%F%S nonconstant expression for %s\n"
> >
> >#: ldexp.c:1138
> >#, c-format
> >msgid "%F%S: nonconstant expression for %s\n"

I just committed a fix on mainline for this.

> >#: emultempl/armcoff.em:194
> >#: emultempl/pe.em:1533
> >msgid "%P: warning: connot find thumb start symbol %s\n"
> >
> >- connot
> >+ cannot

Ditto.

> >#: ldmisc.c:245
> >#, c-format
> >msgid "built in linker script:%u
> >
> >Should there be a space after the colon?

Probably not.  A similar message when using a file script is
<filename>:<line_number>.  

> >I don't know if you want to abbreviate these as much as possible,  
> >or if you would prefer that they were correct English:
[snip]

The idea is to fit help text on an 80-column display.

> >#: lexsup.c:329
> >msgid ""
> >"Set DT_NEEDED tags for DT_NEEDED entries in\n"
> >"\t\t\t\tfollowing dynamic libs"

These messages probably shouldn't use embedded tabs.  Fixed.

> >I hope this is useful.

Yes, thanks.

> >The developer thus needs to pass the option --msgid-bugs-address=...

Fixed mainline and 2.18.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM