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Poedit fails to open PO files

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From: Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la <at> protonmail.com>
To: Luis Felipe via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Poedit fails to open PO files
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2022 19:02:41 +0000

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STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Launch Poedit
2. Open the attached PO file (guix-website-es.po)


EXPECTED RESULT

☑ Poedit displays the catalog correctly


UNEXPECTED RESULT

☒ The catalog is not displayed. Instead you see an error:

Poedit Error: Unhandled exception occurred: Cannot execute program: msgfmt -o /dev/null -c "/path/to/guix-website-es.po"


WORKAROUND

Start Poedit in a guix shell that adds gettext:

guix shell poedit gettext
poedit

Then, you can open the PO files normally.

So it seems the package definition for Poedit is missing gettext as a run-time dependency (?).


SYSTEM INFO

Guix System (guix 77e768a)  

Poedit 2.2.4  




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Luis Felipe López Acevedo
https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/

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Message #8 received at 58046 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "(" <paren <at> disroot.org>
To: "Luis Felipe" <luis.felipe.la <at> protonmail.com>, <58046 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#58046: Poedit fails to open PO files
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2022 20:25:56 +0100

On Sat Sep 24, 2022 at 8:02 PM BST, Luis Felipe via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:
> WORKAROUND
>
> Start Poedit in a guix shell that adds gettext:
>
> guix shell poedit gettext
> poedit
>
> Then, you can open the PO files normally.
>
> So it seems the package definition for Poedit is missing gettext as a run-time dependency (?).

What might be referred to as a "run-time dependency" is called a
"propagated input" in Guix, where a dependency of X is installed
whenever X itself is installed. They are generally considered
undesirable and should be avoided, so when we're faced with this
sort of problem we usually do:

  (inputs (list gettext))

and add a phase:

  (add-after 'unpack 'patch-invocations
    (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
      (substitute* "src/foo/bar.c"
        (("\"msgfmt\"")
         (string-append
          "\""
          (search-input-file inputs "bin/msgfmt")
          "\"")))))

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Message #11 received at 58046 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la <at> protonmail.com>
To: "(" <paren <at> disroot.org>
Cc: 58046 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#58046: Poedit fails to open PO files
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2022 13:14:02 +0000

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On Saturday, September 24th, 2022 at 19:25, ( <paren <at> disroot.org> wrote:

> 

> What might be referred to as a "run-time dependency" is called a
> "propagated input" in Guix, where a dependency of X is installed
> whenever X itself is installed. They are generally considered
> undesirable and should be avoided, so when we're faced with this
> sort of problem we usually do:
> 

> (inputs (list gettext))
> 

> and add a phase:
> 

> (add-after 'unpack 'patch-invocations
> (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
> (substitute* "src/foo/bar.c"
> (("\"msgfmt\"")
> (string-append
> "\""
> (search-input-file inputs "bin/msgfmt")
> "\"")))))

Thanks, (, I'll try to patch it.

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Message #16 received at 58046-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Luis Felipe <sirgazil <at> zoho.com>
To: 58046-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Poedit fails to open PO files
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2024 15:18:02 +0000

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This issue has been solved indirectly, apparently (I don't see changes 
to the package definition since 2019).

I followed the steps to reproduce the issue, but the file attached to 
the initial report opens successfully:

Screenshot of Poedit 2.2.4 loading the catalog correctly.

This test was using:

guix ac19ae3
poedit 2.2.4

-- 
Luis Felipe López Acevedo
https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/

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