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[Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>]

Ok, I have updated the linux translation framework so that it will now
gracefully handle errors in the file translation. If it detects an error
when translating the metadata it will instead copy the raw metadata file
over and throw a warning into the build log but let the build continue.

-Ian

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 5:25 PM Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Yes, Steve made me aware of the lack of that file on older distros - and I
> am working on a solution. I am currently building out the CMake files so
> that they try to do the translation and then check the return code and
> fallback to a simple file copy if the translation fails (and display the
> failure as a warning, so it is visible but doesn't stop the build process).
>
> -Ian
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 5:12 PM Steven A. Falco <stevenfalco@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> We have the same problem with Fedora 32 because it also doesn't have the
>> needed ITS file.
>>
>> I believe Ian is looking into a solution.
>>
>>         Steve
>>
>> On 1/21/21 11:40 AM, Jean-Samuel Reynaud wrote:
>> > Dear Ian,
>> >
>> > Since this update some build fail on ubuntu. In fact there is
>> > translation of some XML files (for example mime types
>> > resources/linux/mime/kicad-gerbers.xml.in) but gettext is unable to
>> find
>> > rules to translate that kind of file without the appropriate ITS file.
>> > On Ubuntu 18.04, shared-mime-info is too old and don't ship
>> > shared-mime-info.loc and shared-mime-info.its. So building is failing.
>> >
>> > So what is your proposal for that ? Perhaps there is already an answer
>> > about this point ? I think I can fix that by coping missing ITS files on
>> > the appropriate directory but it's a dirty solution...
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Le 18/01/2021 à 18:54, Ian McInerney a écrit :
>> >> The changes to the i18n build system have now been merged into the
>> >> master branch - with the change that KICAD_BUILD_I18N will default to
>> >> OFF now, so it must be enabled when you want to build the translations
>> >> libraries.
>> >>
>> >> At this point, all nightly builds of the master branch that include
>> >> translations need to be updated to use the KICAD_BUILD_I18N=ON flag and
>> >> no longer reference the i18n repository.
>> >>
>> >> -Ian
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 7:41 PM Ian McInerney <
>> Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx
>> >> <mailto:Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>      Since we now host the v6 translations inside the main code
>> >>      repository, I have consolidated the CMake scripts for building the
>> >>      translation files into the main build process inside this MR
>> >>      (https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/merge_requests/628). That
>> >>      exposes a new CMake option `KICAD_BUILD_I18N`, which defaults to
>> on,
>> >>      that controls if the translations are built. When that option is
>> ON,
>> >>      gettext is a required dependency and when it is off it is not
>> >>      needed. This change will require some people to modify their
>> current
>> >>      build setup to disable the translations if they do not wish to
>> build
>> >>      with gettext.
>> >>
>> >>      In that MR I have also added the linux metadata files to the
>> >>      translation framework to allow for the strings contained inside
>> them
>> >>      to be internationalized (so that the user sees translated strings
>> on
>> >>      desktop icons/tooltips in their display manager). That should be a
>> >>      transparent change to the packagers of nightly builds, but a
>> welcome
>> >>      change for users.
>> >>
>> >>      -Ian
>> >>
>> >>
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