Use relative paths in extracted pot file?

[Daniel15]

I'm extracting strings from both C# code (using GetText.NET extractor) and GNOME Blueprint files (which use regular gettext), then using msgcat to combine them into one .pot file. I'm running a command like this to extract the C# strings:

GetText.Extractor -u -as '_' -t /tmp/csharpmessages.pot 

Which results in strings like these:

#: ../../home/daniel/src/WebCamControl/src/WebCamControl.Gtk/MiniWindow.cs:82
msgid ""
"No saved preset. Use the 'Save Preset' menu option or press Ctrl+S to save "
"one."
msgstr ""

#: ../../home/daniel/src/WebCamControl/src/WebCamControl.Gtk/MiniWindow.cs:77
#, csharp-format
msgid "Apply preset \"{0}\""
msgstr ""

...

I'm running GetText.Extractor from the /home/daniel/src/WebCamControl/ directory.

Is there a way to make the paths relative to the current directory rather than the target directory? I'd like the paths to just be src/WebCamControl.Gtk/MiniWindow.cs rather than ../../home/daniel/src/WebCamControl/src/WebCamControl.Gtk/MiniWindow.cs, which would be consistent with how xgettext does it.

[perpetualKid]

the easiest would probably to specify the starting directory using -s source option

https://github.com/perpetualKid/GetText.NET/wiki/Extractor-Command-Line#--source--s

Extractor typically uses the project or solution file as root, or alternatively an directory, and have all extracted paths relative to that. In your case since nothing is specified, would start right out of the working directory.

[Daniel15]

I used --source ../ (since I had to run it from a subdirectory anyways) but that didn't work and the paths still seem to be relative to the output directory. I ended up using sed to trim the paths: https://github.com/Daniel15/WebCamControl/blob/main/po/extract-strings.sh