Migrate from intltool to gettext
intltool has long been dead upstream. Let's not poke the dead corpse, please.
This commit is quite large, but that's mostly since trying to support a hybrid of both gettext and intltool with both Meson and Autotools was really hard, so I stopped trying.
Due to gettext relying on quite some things being at the exactly right
place in the autotools build (like ABOUT-NLS
and config.rpath
) we
really needed to cleanup the autogen.sh
to only call aclocal
and
autoreconf
. No more strange magic; I tried to do it without changing
too much in the file, and things just broke. If people want to do
something more custom, they can just change the script directly. This
change also uncovered some problems in our configure.ac
, like using
deprecated macros.
The following major changes happened:
- meson: Changed
custom_target()
toi18n.merge_file()
for all supported file types - Added
.its
and.loc
files for the GIMP-specific XML formats, so that gettext understands them - For the
.isl
(Window installer stuff) file, there's no easy way to do this in gettext, so instead we start from an XML file (again with its own ITS rules etc), translate that with gettext, and then usexsltproc
with a bit of magic to output the .isl file for each language - the
po*/Makefile.in.in
files are migrated toMakevars
files, which gettext natively understands.
Fixes: #8028 (closed)