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gettext-prof

A gettext profiler / dynamic POT file generation

Generates POT files based on messages that were actually requested during a program's execution.

This tool is meant for situations where translating all messages of a multi-thousand-message translation catalog is unrealistic, and the important messages that are actually used during regular execution should somehow be cherry-picked.

Quick Start Guide

  1. Compile it:

make

  1. Use it to execute an application, in this case 'gcc':

path/dynamic-gettext gcc

  1. In the end, a *_dynamic.pot file(s) is/are created in CWD. This .pot will contain exactly the messages that were really requested from gettext at runtime.

  2. Merge your translation with the *_dynamic.pot:

msgmerge -U gcc-9.1.xx.po gcc*_dynamic.pot

  1. Complete the translation of your .po.

  2. Merge your .po again, now against the upstream .pot

msgmerge -U gcc-9.1.xx.po gcc-9.1.pot

Now your .po contains translations for the messages found through profiling, as well as translations that possibly were in the .po initially.