Using gettext support with an external xgettext program ?

[Guillaume Rousse]

Hello list.

I'm trying to sanitize sympa (www.sympa.org) usage of autotools. I made 
a few attempts to use automake builtin gettext support, as explained at 
http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~adl/autotools.html, but I don't think that is 
really suited for my needs.

First, sympa is mainly a perl program, and the only native parts are 
only wrapper without any translation, meaing I don't need any support 
for libintl linking.

Second, many of the strings to be translated occurs in tt2 template 
files, and xgettext.pl (distributed in Locale-Maketext-Lexicon) does a 
far better job than GNU xgexttext to extract them (I don't think gnu 
gettext could recognize patterns such as [% |l(args) %]string[% END %], 
even with --keyword option).

So, is there a way to benefit from automake-generated make rules for 
managing (building, installing, distributing, etc...) .pot, .mo and .po 
files, but with an external xgettext program ?

Or should I manage this just as ordinary data files, such as:

localedir = $(datadir)/locale
nobase_locale_DATA = fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/sympa.mo \
                     ...

Thanks.

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