Bug 158820 – sys-devel/gettext-0.15 - parser bug in Perl backend to xgettext

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Guido Flohr 2006-12-22 03:48:20 UTC]

GNU gettext 0.15 introduced a bug in the Perl backend to xgettext.  To reproduce create a sample Perl file test.pl:

$cat test.pl
#! /usr/bin/perl

sub __ { shift }
print gettext ("Dimensions: "), "$width x $height\n";
__END__
$ /usr/bin/xgettext test.pl
test.pl:4: invalid variable interpolation at "$"

xgettext fails here, although there is no illegal variable interpolation.

[Comment 1 Guido Flohr 2006-12-22 03:49:55 UTC]

Created attachment 104567 [details, diff]
Fix Perl parser in xgettext

The patch is already applied upstream in GNU gettext 0.16.1 and fixes the problem with the "illegal" variable interpolation.

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2006-12-29 16:58:52 UTC]

easier to version bump then backport

1.16.1 in portage