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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1996-07-02 04:48:32 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>1996-07-02 04:48:32 +0000
commit1372968ab02d75a8ab41ff1d1dee2f31ffe848cf (patch)
tree09bab071d85643381374a2f572dc5c28a23a7f20 /src
parentd2b4bca42e4ede9c9e00a4bdf5cf82b4a072df5d (diff)
downloadcoreutils-1372968ab02d75a8ab41ff1d1dee2f31ffe848cf.tar.xz
(do_link): Update messages to ease translation.
Suggestion from Santiago Vila.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/ln.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/ln.c b/src/ln.c
index ee3e793fc..a2c37d7e5 100644
--- a/src/ln.c
+++ b/src/ln.c
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ int symlink ();
#endif
#ifdef S_ISLNK
-# define SYMBOLIC_SPACE_STRING symbolic_link ? _("symbolic ") : ""
+# define LINK_TYPE symbolic_link ? _("symbolic link") : _("hard link")
#else
-# define SYMBOLIC_SPACE_STRING ""
+# define LINK_TYPE ""
#endif
/* Construct a string NEW_DEST by concatenating DEST, a slash, and
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ do_link (const char *source, const char *dest)
}
if (verbose)
- printf (_("create %slink %s to %s\n"), SYMBOLIC_SPACE_STRING,
+ printf (_("create %s %s to %s\n"), LINK_TYPE,
dest, source);
if ((*linkfunc) (source, dest) == 0)
@@ -297,8 +297,8 @@ do_link (const char *source, const char *dest)
return 0;
}
- error (0, errno, _("cannot %slink `%s' to `%s'"), SYMBOLIC_SPACE_STRING,
- source, dest);
+ error (0, errno, _("cannot create %s `%s' to `%s'"), LINK_TYPE,
+ dest, source);
if (dest_backup)
{