commit 2515ab983f2c4cb4e7e1e9bc405cb427833148d8
Author: Geert Janssens <janssens-geert@telenet.be>
Date: Mon Mar 21 15:10:12 2011 +0000
[PATCH 4/4] Bug #615168: N_ in the root module
* src/app-utils/app-utils.scm:
* src/app-utils/c-interface.scm: Make N_ available to all of Gnucash. A
hack, but a correct hack that permits the Scheme code to be compiled.
Patch by Andy Wingo.
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@20438 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd
diff --git a/src/app-utils/app-utils.scm b/src/app-utils/app-utils.scm
index 2c64b12..3b00d50 100644
--- a/src/app-utils/app-utils.scm
+++ b/src/app-utils/app-utils.scm
@@ -273,6 +273,22 @@
(define gnc:*kvp-option-path* (list KVP-OPTION-PATH))
(export gnc:*kvp-option-path*)
+;; gettext functions
+(define gnc:gettext gnc-gettext-helper)
+(define gnc:_ gnc:gettext)
+(define _ gnc:gettext)
+(define-syntax N_
+ (syntax-rules ()
+ ((_ x) x)))
+
+;; A lot of Gnucash's code uses procedural interfaces to load modules.
+;; This normally works, for procedures -- but for values that need to be
+;; known at expand time, like macros, it doesn't work (in Guile 2.0 at
+;; least). So instead of auditing all the code, since N_ is really the
+;; only Gnucash-defined macro in use, the surgical solution is just to
+;; make N_ available everywhere.
+(module-define! the-root-module 'N_ (module-ref (current-module) 'N_))
+
(load-from-path "c-interface.scm")
(load-from-path "config-var.scm")
(load-from-path "options.scm")
diff --git a/src/app-utils/c-interface.scm b/src/app-utils/c-interface.scm
index 548e3bb..0f912a3 100644
--- a/src/app-utils/c-interface.scm
+++ b/src/app-utils/c-interface.scm
@@ -37,15 +37,6 @@
(call-with-output-string write-error)))
-;; gettext functions
-(define gnc:gettext gnc-gettext-helper)
-(define gnc:_ gnc:gettext)
-(define _ gnc:gettext)
-(define-syntax N_
- (syntax-rules ()
- ((_ x) x)))
-
-
;; This database can be used to store and retrieve translatable
;; strings. Strings that are returned by the lookup function are
;; translated with gettext.