Extraction fails with gettext 0.21

[georgkrause]

While the extraction works fine with 0.19, I start getting problems with v0.21.

xgettext --language=JavaScript --keyword=npgettext:1c,2,3 --from-code=utf-8 --join-existing --no-wrap --package-name=$(node -e "console.log(require('./package.json').name);") --package-version=$(node -e "console.log(require('./package.json').version);") --output $locales_dir/app.pot src/App.vue --no-wrap 
xgettext: Öffnen der Datei »/app.pot« zum Lesen fehlgeschlagen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

(Sorry for the german error message)

The file in question is available here: https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/-/blob/develop/front/src/App.vue

[7iomka]

While the extraction works fine with 0.19, I start getting problems with v0.21.

xgettext --language=JavaScript --keyword=npgettext:1c,2,3 --from-code=utf-8 --join-existing --no-wrap --package-name=$(node -e "console.log(require('./package.json').name);") --package-version=$(node -e "console.log(require('./package.json').version);") --output $locales_dir/app.pot src/App.vue --no-wrap 
xgettext: Öffnen der Datei »/app.pot« zum Lesen fehlgeschlagen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

(Sorry for the german error message)

The file in question is available here: https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/-/blob/develop/front/src/App.vue

Hi
You resolved your issue?
I read your docs https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/-/blob/develop/CONTRIBUTING.rst
I have error: scripts/i18n-extract.sh: line 15: xgettext: command not found error Command failed with exit code 127.

Is the same error?

[georgkrause]

Hello!

I did not solved it, I simply work around it by using gettext version 0.19.

Anyway, the errors are not the same. The one I reported is like Failed to open File "/app.pot" for reading: File or directory not found

[Knogobert]

Oh my colleague and I have been sitting way too much on trying to fix this.

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I finally solved it by downgrading to gettext 0.20.2

Steps I took (on macOS Big Sur):

• brew install nedap/versions/gettext@0.20.2 (big thanks @nedap!). Make sure you have the latest xcode-select installed for this to be able to be compiled

If you run into brew linking issues like me, run:

• brew link --overwrite --force gettext@0.20.2

If you still get another version as linked, run:

• gettext --version to double-check what version is active.
• echo $PATH to see if gettext is in your $PATH. If it is, remove it from there so that brew's version can be used instead.
• Then open a new terminal window to make sure it has loaded the new $PATH.
• Voilà! gettext --version should now be returning gettext (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.20.2 and hopefully this can run your scripts again!

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At the time of writing this, my colleague found another solution.

He updated the xgettext line to run via gettext-extract instead, and removed a bunch of unusable flags.

From e.g.

xgettext --language=JavaScript --keyword=npgettext:1c,2,3 --from-code=utf-8 --join-existing --no-wrap --package-name=$(node -e "console.log(require('./package.json').name);") --package-version=$(node -e "console.log(require('./package.json').version);") --output $locales_dir/app.pot src/App.vue --no-wrap 

To e.g.

xgettext --output $locales_dir/app.pot src/App.vue

But it's not really fully functioning properly yet, it doesn’t seem to --join-existing. Will update if we manage to use this solution. For now we will unfortunately downgrade.