[fdo-internals] RE: mkcatdefs/gencat message catalogue files on OSX

Jack Lee jack.lee at sympatico.ca
Sat Feb 14 20:33:02 EST 2009


Hi Greg,

There is a build script in the directory where the source is located. 
Were there compile problems?


Greg Boone wrote:
>
> Right now the mkcatdefs issue is blocking progress. Jack/Traian, if 
> you can provide any steps on how to build it on macosx, that would be 
> appreciated.
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> Greg
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> *From:* fdo-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> [mailto:fdo-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Traian 
> Stanev
> *Sent:* Saturday, February 14, 2009 2:43 PM
> *To:* fdo-internals at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* [fdo-internals] RE: mkcatdefs/gencat message catalogue 
> files on OSX
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> I **think** I recompiled mkcatdefs for OSX and generated the message 
> file on my Mac. I forgot how I did it, but I can go through it again 
> to retrace my steps. As far as I remember, it wasn't too painful.
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> At the time, I was actually going to complain about the whole process 
> of generating the message catalog like that instead of having all the 
> messages in a header of some sort... A related question, do FDO error 
> messages from the generated catalog ever get localized to languages 
> other than English?
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> Another thing that is really bad (at least on OSX) is that the Fdo/Nls 
> code has header files which have the same names as standard C 
> headers!! This was confusing the hell out of g++ since other standard 
> C headers end up including those header files from FDO rather than 
> from e.g. /usr/include.
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> I never really got FDO to compile cleanly on OSX, but admittedly I 
> didn't spend too long on it.
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> Traian
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> *From:* fdo-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> [mailto:fdo-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Greg Boone
> *Sent:* Saturday, February 14, 2009 2:31 PM
> *To:* fdo-internals at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* [fdo-internals] mkcatdefs/gencat message catalogue files on OSX
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> Hi All,
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> When generating our FDO message catalogue files on Linux we use the 
> following Makefile.am specification which in turn relies on mkcatdefs 
> and gencat. However on OSX, mkcatdefs is not available. Are there any 
> suggestions out there on how we can modify the message catalogue 
> compilation process to work with OSX?
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> AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign
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> EXTRA_DIST = FDOMessage.mc resource.h MessageStatic.rc
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> CATDIR = ../../nls/linux/en_US
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> CATALOGS = FDOMessage.mc
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> CATALOGS_CAT = $(patsubst %.mc,$(CATDIR)/%.cat,$(CATALOGS))
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> all: catalog_init $(CATALOGS_CAT)
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> clean:
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>                 @rm -rf $(CATDIR)/*.cat 
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>                 @rm -rf *.msf
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> catalog_init::
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>                 @if [ ! -d $(CATDIR) ]; then mkdir -p $(CATDIR); fi
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> $(CATALOGS_CAT) : $(CATDIR)/%.cat : %.msf
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>                 @rm -f "../../Inc/$(basename $(notdir $<)).h"
>
>                 @echo "$(FDOTHIRDPARTY)/linux/mkcatdefs/mkcatdefs 
> $(basename $(notdir $<)) $< | gencat $@"; \
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>                 $(FDOTHIRDPARTY)/linux/mkcatdefs/mkcatdefs $(basename 
> $(notdir $<)) $< > $(addsuffix .tmp, $(basename $(notdir $<))); \
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>                 gencat $@ $(addsuffix .tmp, $(basename $(notdir $<))); \
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>                 sed -e '/#include/d' -e '/MF_/s/"\(.*\)\.cat"/\1_cat/' \
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>                 $(addsuffix _msg.h, $(basename $(notdir $<))) > \
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>                 ../../Inc/$(addsuffix _msg.h, $(basename $(notdir $<)))
>
>                 @rm $(addsuffix _msg.h, $(basename $(notdir $<))) \
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>                 $(addsuffix .tmp, $(basename $(notdir $<)))
>
>                 @mv ../../Inc/$(basename $(notdir $<))_msg.h 
> ../../Inc/FdoMessage.h
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> %.msf : %.mc
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>                 @../McToMsf/McToMsf $(basename $(notdir $<)).mc 
> $(basename $(notdir $<)).msf "*" FDO
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> INSTALL_DIR  = $(prefix)/nls
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> #install data
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> install :
>
>                 @if [ ! -d $(INSTALL_DIR) ]; then mkdir -p 
> $(INSTALL_DIR); fi
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>                 @cp -u -f $(CATDIR)/FDOMessage.cat $(INSTALL_DIR)
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> uninstall :
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>                 @rm -f $(INSTALL_DIR)/FDOMessage.cat
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