msgcc - C language message catalog compiler

msgcc is a C language message catalog compiler. It accepts cc(1) style options and arguments. A msgcpp(1) .mso file is generated for each input .c file. If the -c option is not specified then a gencat(1) format .msg file is generated from the input .mso and .msg files. If -c is not specified then a .msg suffix is appended to the -o file if it doesn't already have a suffix. The default output is a.out.msg if -c and -o are not specified.

If -M-new is not specified then messages are merged with those in the pre-existing -o file.

-M -option

Set a msgcc specific option. option may be:

mkmsgs

The -o file is assumed to be in mkmsgs(1) format.

new

Create a new -o file.

preserve

Messages in the -o file that are not in new .msg file arguments are preserved. The default is to either reuse the message numbers with new message text that is similar to the old or to delete the message text, leaving an unused message number.

set=number

Set the message set number to number. The default is 1 .

similar=number

The message text similarity measure threshold. The similarity measure between old and new message text is 100*(2*gzip(old+new)/(gzip(old)+gzip( new))-1), where gzip(x) is the size of text x when compressed by gzip(1). The default threshold is 30. A threshold of 0 turns off message replacement, but unused old messages are still deleted. Use -M-preserve to preserve all old messages.

verbose

Trace similar message replacements on the standard error.

cc(1), cpp(1), gencat(1), msggen(1), msgcpp(1), msgcvt(1)

version

msgcc (AT&T Labs Research) 2010-10-20

author

Glenn Fowler <gsf@research.att.com >

copyright

Copyright © 2000-2012 AT&T Intellectual Property

license

http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/epl-v10.html