[pacman-dev] [PATCH] scripts: allow usage when gettext is not installed

[Dan McGee]

On Feb 17, 2008 9:24 PM, Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Address the issue of our scripts not working so great when gettext is not
> available. This has come up in multiple bug reports, and is relatively easy
> to address by adding a simple check and a stub function if gettext was not
> found that simply echos the original message.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org>
> ---
>
> This issue comes up a lot it seems, so I hope this simple check can fix
> things up for good. Can anyone see anything wrong with doing this? Quick
> tests locally seemed to make me think it works? Just rename some gettext calls
> to something you know does not exist, and change the patch below accordingly
> to test. Someone with a bit more bash knowledge and checking more complex
> strings with echo would be good to have here.
>
> I'd like to push this to 3.1.2 if there are no issues, as it is an easy
> and straightforward fix.

Refs that I forgot to mention:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9214
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9607