Generating language files: yarn pot throws Syntaxerror: exit code 1

[StefanB]

Hey,

i want to generate language files. I worked your tutorial (Sage 9.x: Localization | Roots Documentation) through and have got everytime at executing yarn pot follow message on the console:

Syntaxfehler.
error Command failed with exit code 1.

I installed already coreutils, findutils and gettext. But this didn’t change anything.

Do anyone have an idea how i can solve the issue?

[strarsis]

The tooling has improved, wp i18n can now handle all the i18n-related tasks, including Blade-PHP template files.

Please take a look at this discussion/guide about using the new wp i18n for scanning/updating and compiling gettext and JSON translation files:

Strings from Blade-syntaxt don't show up in sage.pot

@el_skak: This is how I use it with wp i18n from source (with all the yet to be released bug fixes included): (cwd into ~/src) git clone https://github.com/wp-cli/i18n-command (cwd into ~/src/i18n-command) composer install to install the wp i18n dependencies. Sage theme package.json: "translate": "yarn translate:pot && yarn translate:update", "translate:pot": "~/src/i18n-command/vendor/bin/wp i18n make-pot . ./resources/lang/sage.pot --include=\"theme.json,app,resources\"", "tra…

Related PRs (Sage 10):
https://github.com/roots/sage/pull/3081
https://github.com/roots/sage/pull/3076

The same can be used for Sage 9 themes. Just the input-path needs an adjustment.