Re: Translations of gdb

Re: Translations of gdb

[Jan Beulich via Gdb]

On 24.01.2026 20:56, Göran Uddeborg wrote:
> Would you be interested in a Swedish translation of gdb? It appears
> gdb is instrumented for using locale files. But when I look in
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=tree;f=gdb/po;h=ae1b396e6b404eebbe7261242569f2ae05caa48c;hb=HEAD
> there doesn't seem to exist any translations, nor is there a pot file
> there. Binutils itself is translated via Translation Project, and the
> corresponding directory in that part of the source tree contains
> several translations. But nothing on the gdb side, which made me
> wonder.
> 
> What is the situation for translations of gdb? If we work on a
> translation (Daniel Nylander has started and sent it to me for
> review), would you be interested? Or do you not consider gdb ready for
> using translations yet?

Did you perhaps mean to send this to the gdb list (rather then the binutils
one). I've added that one to Cc here.

Jan

Re: Translations of gdb

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Beulich via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org> writes:

>> Would you be interested in a Swedish translation of gdb? It appears
>> gdb is instrumented for using locale files. But when I look in
>> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=tree;f=gdb/po;h=ae1b396e6b404eebbe7261242569f2ae05caa48c;hb=HEAD
>> there doesn't seem to exist any translations, nor is there a pot file
>> there. Binutils itself is translated via Translation Project, and the
>> corresponding directory in that part of the source tree contains
>> several translations. But nothing on the gdb side, which made me
>> wonder.

>> What is the situation for translations of gdb? If we work on a
>> translation (Daniel Nylander has started and sent it to me for
>> review), would you be interested? Or do you not consider gdb ready for
>> using translations yet?

The state of this is that while gdb tries to use the markup, nobody has
done the work to fix up the build to create a .pot file, etc.

I see we don't even have a bug about this, so I filed one:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33843

Anyway I think a change like this would be welcome.

We'd need some education on what to do in terms of working with the
translation project.

thanks,
Tom

Re: Translations of gdb

[Göran Uddeborg via Gdb]

I understand. Thanks for the explanation.