Bug#19760: marked as done (libc6: XPG3 Locale support is broken)
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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 11:38:05 +0000 (GMT)
From: <luisgh@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Subject: libc6: XPG3 Locale support is broken
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Package: libc6
Version: 2.0.7pre1-4
Currently, AFAICT, locale catalogs are installed into
/usr/share/locale/%L/LC_MESSAGES/%N where %L is the language
as in $LANG or $LC_ALL and %N being the file. Alternatively, locale is also
searched under /usr/share/locale/%L/%N, but this seems not to be used at allo
for Debian. Note that this paths are hardwired in the libc (Makefile in the
catgets directory of the source tree). Now there are certain problems with this.
For example, for german, all programs seem to use
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/name but unfortunately, unless you define
LC_ALL=de rather than say LC_ALL=de_DE, this path is not searched automatically.
I suggest that the search path should be set to
/usr/share/locale/%L/%N:\
/usr/share/locale/%L/LC_MESSAGES/%N:/usr/share/locale/%l/LC_MESSAGES/%N
Here is a small patch to do this.
diff -U 3 --recursive glibc-2.0.7pre1-original/catgets/Makefile glibc-2.0.7pre1/catgets/Makefile
--- glibc-2.0.7pre1-original/catgets/Makefile Mon Mar 16 11:35:01 1998
+++ glibc-2.0.7pre1/catgets/Makefile Sat Apr 20 01:04:39 1996
@@ -37,5 +37,5 @@
$(objpfx)gencat: $(gencat-modules:%=$(objpfx)%.o)
-CPPFLAGS := -DNLSPATH='"$(localedir)/%L/%N:$(localedir)/%l/LC_MESSAGES/%N:$(localedir)/%L/LC_MESSAGES/%N:"' \
+CPPFLAGS := -DNLSPATH='"$(localedir)/%L/%N:$(localedir)/%L/LC_MESSAGES/%N:"' \
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H $(CPPFLAGS)
Thanks,
Luis.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0 (unstable)
Kernel Version: Linux masca 2.0.33 #12 jue ene 8 15:00:00 GMT 1998 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages libc6 depends on:
ldso Version: 1.9.6-2
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