Re: how to harvest translatable strings from generated files?

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
> > You can either create the dummy C file in the source directory, and
> > distribute it with your package. The same way as you handle the output
> > from bison or flex.
>
> This is not an option here, as some of the C files depend on `configure'
> results.  Even if those with translatable strings currently don't,
> splitting over it looks ugly.

How can this work? You've got a problem here: If the POT file that would
be generated, say, on FreeBSD differs from the POT file on, say, Linux,
which one would be sent to the translators?
  - Sometimes one, sometimes the other? The translators will say "thank you"
    when they realize that some messages have been dropped and then
    reintroduced again.
  - Always the Linux one? Then the FreeBSD user will never have a fully
    localized application.
  - Always the FreeBSD one? Then the Linux user ...

Really, the POT file needs to be platform independent.

Bruno