check in configure if xgettext supports lisp

SVN-Revision: 2254

diff --git a/TRANSLATORS b/TRANSLATORS
index 998d235..20ffb7c 100644 (file)
--- a/TRANSLATORS
+++ b/TRANSLATORS
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
 * Install gettext
 * get a cvs snapshot of supertux and do the usual autogen.sh, configure.
   Make sure configure can find the xgettext application.
-    (ie. "checking for xgettext... xgettext")
+    (ie. "checking for xgettext... xgettext"
+     and "checking if xgettext supports Lisp... yes")
 * Run 'jam' and let it compile supertux and create all the messages.po files
 * Go into data/locale and data/levels/*/ and in each dir do:
      - In case you want to create a new translation do

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 65568c0..699bf96 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -28,6 +28,16 @@ AC_PROG_CXX
 AC_PROG_INSTALL
 
 AC_CHECK_PROGS(XGETTEXT, xgettext)
+if test -n "$XGETTEXT" ; then
+    AC_MSG_CHECKING([if xgettext supports lisp])
+    if echo '(gettext "test")' | xgettext -o - -L Lisp - >& /dev/null; then
+        AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
+    else
+        AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+        AC_MSG_WARN([It seems your gettext installation is too old, try updating it])
+        XGETTEXT=""
+    fi
+fi
 
 dnl Checks for header files.
 AC_HEADER_DIRENT