Linux console tools development discussion
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
To: Linux console tools development discussion <kbd@lists.altlinux.org>
Subject: Re: [kbd] kbd binaries unable to find locale files when 'datadir' is passed to configure
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 12:55:51 +0200
Message-ID: <20200608105551.y65vjqub3eolw3j4@comp-core-i7-2640m-0182e6> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFPa+Sm7oyxsgWpgxuMASvS2LEfM9BQJC1368PLz7rkzoBn8Lw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 10:37:32AM -0300, Rafael Fontenelle wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The locale files are currently being installed in '${datadir}/locale'
> regardless of 'localedir' being set to different path. This causes kbd
> binaries to not find locale files when the 'datadir' argument is
> passed to ./configure even if combined with 'localedir' argument. (see
> steps to reproduce 1)
> 
> I noticed that running kbd's ./autogen.sh creates 'po/Makefile.in.in'
> file with "localedir=$(datadir)/localedir" set. This is a problem
> because running './configure' passing "--localedir=/usr/share" will
> not work with the current 'po/Makefile.in.in', and 'po/Makefile' will
> be created with "localedir=$(datadir)/localedir" set. (see steps to
> reproduce 2)
> 
> Steps to reproduce 1:
> 1- build kbd with non-default datadir (ex.: ./configure --prefix=/usr
> --datadir=/usr/share/kbd)
> 2- strace dumpkeys (or any other binary)
> 3- see that locales are being searched in /usr/share/locale
> 
> Steps to reproduce 2:
> 1- clone kbd repository
> 2- ./autogen.sh -f
> 3- 'grep localedir po/Makefile.in.in' to see the value "$(datadir)/localedir"
> 4- ./configure --prefix=/usr --datadir=/usr/share/kbd
> --mandir=/usr/share/man --localedir=/usr/share
> 5- same as step 3 for 'po/Makefile'
> 6- 'grep localedir Makefile' to see correct value for localedir "/usr/share"
> 7- same as step 6 for 'config.log'
> 
> Environment:
> - distro: Arch Linux 64-bit
> - packages: kbd 2.2.90, autconf 2.69. automake 1.16.2, m4 1.4.18

I just updated gettext stuff.

-- 
Rgrds, legion



      reply	other threads:[~2020-06-08 10:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-03 13:37 Rafael Fontenelle
2020-06-08 10:55 ` Alexey Gladkov [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20200608105551.y65vjqub3eolw3j4@comp-core-i7-2640m-0182e6 \
    --to=gladkov.alexey@gmail.com \
    --cc=kbd@lists.altlinux.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link

Linux console tools development discussion

This inbox may be cloned and mirrored by anyone:

	git clone --mirror http://lore.altlinux.org/kbd/0 kbd/git/0.git

	# If you have public-inbox 1.1+ installed, you may
	# initialize and index your mirror using the following commands:
	public-inbox-init -V2 kbd kbd/ http://lore.altlinux.org/kbd \
		kbd@lists.altlinux.org kbd@lists.altlinux.ru kbd@lists.altlinux.com
	public-inbox-index kbd

Example config snippet for mirrors.
Newsgroup available over NNTP:
	nntp://lore.altlinux.org/org.altlinux.lists.kbd


AGPL code for this site: git clone https://public-inbox.org/public-inbox.git