Adding locales under linux emulation

[Boris Samorodov]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:13:51 -0200 Renato Botelho wrote:

> We are using some linux binaries under linux emulation on FreeBSD 7.x.
> These aplications are using gettext for multi-language, but, jus t "C"
> and "POSIX" are supported on linux emulation:

> root at smdev:~# /compat/linux/usr/bin/locale -a
> C
> POSIX

Can't reproduce it here:
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localhost% uname -a                               
FreeBSD localhost 7.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 #2: Thu Nov 22 01:14:27 MSK 2007     root at localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MOOS  i386

localhost% /compat/linux/usr/bin/locale -a | wc -l
     362

localhost% sysctl -a | grep linux                 
hw.snd.compat_linux_mmap: 0
compat.linux.oss_version: 198144
compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2
compat.linux.osname: Linux

localhost% ls -ld /var/db/pkg/linux_*             
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 15 .$(B'_'`'q.(B 23:53 /var/db/pkg/linux_base-fc-4_10
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> I took a look at /compat/linux/usr/share/locale and a lot of other
> locales are available there, how can I add these to the system?

The linuxulator searches for files with /compat/linux/ prefix first
and then (if none found) without this prefix. It seems to me that if
you have corresponding locale files all should work out of the box.


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