Every po file seems to include entry with empty msgid with some meta information about it. If argp->doc string contains empty pre section (like "\v" "Some text to output after options"), argp_help tries to translate empty string and emits this meta information, like in
bor@opensuse:~/src/grub> grub2-mknetdir --help Использование: grub2-mknetdir [ПАРАМЕТР…] Project-Id-Version: grub 2.02-pre2 Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: bug-g...@gnu.org POT-Creation-Date: 2013-12-24 21:18+0100 PO-Revision-Date: 2013-12-31 10:57+0400 ... Check that pre doc string is empty before translating it. This is less of a problem with post doc which simply can omit "\v" entirely, but there is no other way to skip pre doc, except explicitly using help_filter (which is redundant in this case). Signed-off-by: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidj...@gmail.com> --- lib/argp-help.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/argp-help.c b/lib/argp-help.c index 9044e1b..e470cec 100644 --- a/lib/argp-help.c +++ b/lib/argp-help.c @@ -1510,7 +1510,7 @@ argp_doc (const struct argp *argp, const struct argp_state *state, else { inp_text_len = vt - argp->doc; - inp_text = __strndup (argp->doc, inp_text_len); + inp_text = inp_text_len ? __strndup (argp->doc, inp_text_len) : 0; } } else -- tg: (1b6c775..) u/argp-empty-msgstr (depends on: master)