Re: Bug#147341: gettext: xgettext -D breaks -j (fwd)

[Bruno Haible]

Mark W. Eichin <address@hidden> wrote:

> % xgettext -j -D .. -d "bins-edit-gui" --keyword="N_" --keyword="_" 
> --keyword="
> translate" -f POTFILES.in
> error while opening "bins-edit-gui.po" for reading: No such file or directory
> 
> The -D arg is documented as telling where to look for *input* files,
> and in fact, the output file is correctly generated in the working
> directory of xgettext.  However, -j is "join with existing", namely,
> the same file it is going to output -- and therefore should *not* be
> subject to -D path (or rather, should find it in the working dir
> anyway.)

You are right. This will be fixed in 0.11.3. Thanks for the report.

Bruno