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bug in 8.17 pot file

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Message #42 received at 11470 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Göran Uddeborg <goeran <at> uddeborg.se>
Cc: bug-gnu-gettext <at> gnu.org, 11470 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11470: bug in 8.17 pot file
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 19:22:20 +0100

On 05/17/2012 07:07 PM, Göran Uddeborg wrote:
> A possibly more general fix would be to tell xgettext that fputs'
> argument is not c-format.  That would catch all uses of fputs.
> Something like this:
> 
> --- po/Makevars~        2012-05-10 11:05:30.000000000 +0200
> +++ po/Makevars 2012-05-17 20:06:13.000000000 +0200
> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
>   --flag=asprintf:2:c-format\
>   --flag=error:3:c-format\
>   --flag=error_at_line:5:c-format\
> + --flag=fputs:1:no-c-format\
>   --flag=vasnprintf:3:c-format\
>   --flag=vasprintf:2:c-format\
>   --flag=verror:3:c-format\

Why does xgettext even think fputs takes a printf format?
That's the real bug here right?

I know we have to deal with the bug in the meantime
with something like the above, but I've CC'd
the gettext bug list so that we won't have to
worry about it going forward.

cheers,
Pádraig.

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