Bug#176661: locale.1 does not mention LOCPATH
At Fri, 07 Mar 2003 23:51:21 +0900,
Junichi Uekawa wrote:
>
> > > --- locale.1.orig 2003-01-14 21:30:42.000000000 +0900
> > > +++ locale.1 2003-01-14 21:31:13.000000000 +0900
> > > @@ -233,6 +233,11 @@
> > > .Vb 1
> > > \& Metadata about the locale information.
> > > .Ve
> > > +\&\s-1LOCPATH\s0
> > > +.PP
> > > +.Vb 1
> > > +\& The directory where locale data is stored
> > > +.Ve
> > > .SH "AUTHOR"
> > > .IX Header "AUTHOR"
> > > \&\fIlocale\fR was written by Ulrich Drepper for the \s-1GNU\s0 C Library.
> >
> > It's easy to add this description, but why is this needed? Who do use
> > it? Please explain to me.
>
> I've been looking for a way to specify the directory.
> And this information is available elsewhere also.
And, still my question is: why?
No reason, no accept.
Locale data should be the same exactly. Or are you hacking locale
system or locale data? BTW do you know glibc-2.3.1 uses only
/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive ?
> If there is an alternative POSIX defined locale environment to do a
> similar thing instead, then please document that.
OK.
> It is not obvious how to use a different directory than
> /usr/lib/locale for the locale data from reading the manual pages.
Well, it's not worth while describing.
Regards,
-- gotom
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