localize is broken

[glixx]

./localize.sh
Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.4 [2018/08/09] for x86_64
Copyright (c) 1993-2017 by Florian Klaempfl and others
Target OS: Linux for x86-64
Compiling updatepofiles.pas
Linking updatepofiles.exe
/usr/bin/ld: warning: link.res contains output sections; did you forget -T?
446 lines compiled, 0.2 sec
Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.4 [2018/08/09] for x86_64
Copyright (c) 1993-2017 by Florian Klaempfl and others
Target OS: Linux for x86-64
Compiling generateincfiles.pas
Linking generateincfiles.exe
/usr/bin/ld: warning: link.res contains output sections; did you forget -T?
546 lines compiled, 0.2 sec
find: ‘../units’: No such file or directory
../languages/fpgui.po
An unhandled exception occurred at $00000000004393BC:
EConvertError: "" is an invalid integer
$00000000004393BC
$00000000004014EA

[glixx]

Same for uidesigner:

./localize.sh
Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.4 [2018/08/09] for x86_64
Copyright (c) 1993-2017 by Florian Klaempfl and others
Target OS: Linux for x86-64
Compiling updatepofiles.pas
Linking updatepofiles.exe
/usr/bin/ld: warning: link.res contains output sections; did you forget -T?
446 lines compiled, 4.1 sec
Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.4 [2018/08/09] for x86_64
Copyright (c) 1993-2017 by Florian Klaempfl and others
Target OS: Linux for x86-64
Compiling generateincfiles.pas
Linking generateincfiles.exe
/usr/bin/ld: warning: link.res contains output sections; did you forget -T?
546 lines compiled, 0.2 sec
find: ‘../uidesigner/lib’: No such file or directory
../uidesigner/languages/uidesigner.po
An unhandled exception occurred at $00000000004393BC:
EConvertError: "" is an invalid integer
$00000000004393BC
$00000000004014EA

[glixx]

localize never works. When I tried it 4 years ago it did not work.
Need to have an alternative - xgettext.

[graemeg]

The localize.sh script works fine if you have compiled fpGUI with FPC 2.6.4. ie: it has *.rst files and not the FPC 3.0.x .rsj (json) files. I still can't believe FPC broke such backwards compatibility without even a deprecation period. I am working on implementing the newer json (.rsj) support into the updatepofiles and generateincfiles utilities.

[glixx]

Thank you for working on this bugreport.