RFC: localized libc messages

Gábor Kövesdán gabor at FreeBSD.org
Sun Mar 8 09:45:59 PDT 2009


Rene Ladan escribió:
> Gábor Kövesdán schreef:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> There has been NLS support in our libc implementation for a long 
>> time, but it has been disabled because of some initial problems with 
>> NLS. (I don't know the exact explanation, I've just looked up the 
>> mail archives.) Now, I've made a patch to re-enable it and I've 
>> tested this stuff. It seems to be working without any problems on 
>> 7.X. I haven't had any opportunity to try it out on -CURRENT, but 
>> I've made available the patch for 8-CURRENT. It turns NLS on and adds 
>> some new catalog files.
>
> I've put a slightly different patch (some improvements to the Dutch
> translation) at http://people.freebsd.org/~rene/patches/nls-r189223.diff
>
> It works fine on CURRENT after adding the appropriate stuff to 
> ~/.login_conf.
>
> The only problem is that during buildworld, the temporary directories for
> storing the translations are not created.  I had to create them manually,
> and continue the build with the NO_CLEAN flag (to prevent them getting
> deleted again).
Yes, I was going to commit the patch yesterday but I realized this 
problem and haven't yet found the fix. If there's someone skilled at 
bsd.*.mk, some help would be appreciatied. :)

Regards,

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