kconfig: update-po-config broken in 2.6.29
From: Massimo Maiurana
Date: Tue Apr 07 2009 - 15:57:22 EST
hi,
in latest 2.6.29 "make update-po-config" fails at msguniq invocation
with an "invalid control sequence" error.
the offending string is the following, and it's located in
drivers/staging/panel/Kconfig:72:
"'\e[L' which are specific to the LCD, and a few ANSI codes. The"
looks to me like gettext expects strings in printf format, so in
this case it thinks "\e" is a control sequence but doesn't recognise
it as a valid one.
I can still obtain a suitable linux.pot file escaping the backslash,
and the resulting linux.mo file works even if the string is again
unescaped, but of course if I leave the escaped string it will be
displayed as-is (with a double backslash) if i run a configurator in
english, so it is not a valid solution for a patch.
Maybe a valid solution would be to tell kxgettext to automatically
escape this kind of strings in the */config.pot he produces, so that
msguniq would not complain?... I don't really know, and I don't even
know how to do it. I see there is an escape function right at the
top of kxgettext.c, but as I'm not a coder I don't really know how
to hack it, so it's up to you... sorry.
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