On 8/12/05, Martin Quinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:06:49AM +1000, John Vandenberg wrote: (...) > > + printf $"File $file2 can not be restored: file exists\n" >&2 > > This prevents translation to work because $file2 is extended in the string, > and then we look for a translation of, say "File get_funky.c can not be > restored: file exists\n", which of course doesn't exist. > > That's why you have to use "%s" construct since it delays the variable > expension until after the translation lookup.
thanks for the tip. -- John _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
