Re: ITA freedict

2003-08-28 Thread Bob Hilliard
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: . . . LOCPATH=/tmp/usr/lib/locale dictfmt --locale ($LOCALE_NAME).$(LOCALE_CHAR= SET) ought to have the desired effect. All locale-related glibc functions should respect the value of LOCPATH Thanks, Steve. It works as advertised now. I had

Re: ITA freedict

2003-08-26 Thread Bob Hilliard
Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you set LOCPATH to the equivalent of /usr/lib/locale, and LC_ALL to the name of the locale you generate, you should get what you want without being root. Something like this (mostly cut-n-paste from d-i build system): # The variables

Re: ITA freedict

2003-08-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 06:48:07PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you set LOCPATH to the equivalent of /usr/lib/locale, and LC_ALL to the name of the locale you generate, you should get what you want without being root. Something like this

ITA freedict

2003-08-23 Thread Bob Hilliard
I sent the following message with the X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org header, but apparently [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't recognize that header, so I am resending it. -- tags 206113 +ITA thanks I intend to adopt freedict, which was recently orphaned. dict-freedict

Re: ITA freedict

2003-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 06:22:53PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: I intend to adopt freedict, which was recently orphaned. dict-freedict consists of 42 utf-8 encoded bi-lingual dictionaries. In the past dict-freedict has included pre-formatted dictionaries downloaded from

Re: ITA freedict

2003-08-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Bob Hilliard] This presents a problem for the dict-freedict package, in that a xx_YY.utf-8 locale must be available on the build machine. AFAIK there is no way to guarantee that a specific locale is available on the buildds. It would be possible for debian/rules to generate a xx_YY.utf-8

Re: ITA freedict

2003-08-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 05:35:41PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 06:22:53PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: The simplest approach would be to format the dictionaries on my machine, and include them in the source package. This would be similar to the previous

Re: ITA freedict

2003-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 12:41:24AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Bob Hilliard] This presents a problem for the dict-freedict package, in that a xx_YY.utf-8 locale must be available on the build machine. AFAIK there is no way to guarantee that a specific locale is available on the