From: Daiki Ueno <ueno-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Masanori Ogino <masanori.ogino-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: musl-ZwoEplunGu1jrUoiu81ncdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org,
bug-gnu-gettext-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: AM_GNU_GETTEXT without referring internal symbols?
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 11:23:55 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3h9fit8lg.fsf-ueno@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA-4+jeUF8c+Kmv0UQi0akMAtc2hmi3pC_8=nBNcsfuRcjSgNA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> (Masanori Ogino's message of "Fri, 1 Apr 2016 21:56:34 +0900")
Hello,
Masanori Ogino <masanori.ogino-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
> Now AM_GNU_GETTEXT uses _nl_msg_cat_cntr and _nl_expand_alias to check
> whether the implementation is compatible with GNU gettext. However,
> the symbols don't appear in libintl.h so it seems that they are not
> part of the public API.
>
> Actually, musl libc implements libintl features and the score of
> gettext-tools' testsuite is equal to that with the internal libintl,
> using a modified AM_GNU_GETTEXT.
>
> The musl's libintl.h even defines __USE_GNU_GETTEXT and
> __GNU_GETTEXT_SUPPORTED_REVISION, but it does not imitate private
> symbols.
>
> I had checked the archive and I've found some discussions:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2006-03/msg00011.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2015-11/msg00015.html
>
> So, if the goal of the macro is check if the implementation is
> compatible with GNU gettext, why don't we check the public API rather
> than using internal symbols? Is it possible to check if the
> implementation is not one of known "broken" implementations and/or it
> is really compatible?
I agree that it would be desirable, but doubt that it is possible (at
least reliably), because:
- For some reason, there is no public API to directly load arbitrary MO
files and we need to mimic the behavior of translated applications:
prepare a directory structure (e.g. DIR/fr/domain.mo), call
bindtextdomain() for the directory, and finally call gettext().
- That requires that at least one non-POSIX locale is available on the
system, to pick the translation. However, even if the system is glibc
based, not all locales might be available thanks to sub-packaging
(Fedora) or user configuration (Debian).
So I suppose the only feasible option here is to somehow whitelist the
implementations by checking macros or symbols. Does musl provides
anything like that[1]?
Regards,
Footnotes:
[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/predef/wiki/Libraries/
--
Daiki Ueno
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2016-04-01 12:56 Masanori Ogino
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2016-04-04 2:23 ` Daiki Ueno [this message]
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2016-04-04 4:23 ` Masanori Ogino
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2016-04-07 2:26 ` [musl] " Daiki Ueno
2016-04-07 5:34 ` Re: [bug-gettext] " Masanori Ogino
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2016-04-07 5:36 ` [musl] " Masanori Ogino
2016-05-26 6:09 ` Daiki Ueno
2016-05-26 12:53 ` Re: [bug-gettext] " Masanori Ogino
2016-05-26 19:36 ` Rich Felker
[not found] ` <20160526193658.GA21636-C3MtFaGISjmo6RMmaWD+6Sb1p8zYI1N1@public.gmane.org>
2016-05-27 8:48 ` [musl] " Daiki Ueno
2016-04-07 6:26 ` Re: [bug-gettext] " Rich Felker
2016-04-07 7:12 ` Masanori Ogino
2016-04-07 10:57 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-04-07 13:53 ` Rich Felker
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