On Friday, May 17, 2002, at 08:03 , Justin Hallett wrote:

> hehe maybe i don't know what it does :P  but it would sure unset it for
> the build spawn not for good.
>

 From info gettext :

"Internationalized packages have usually many `LL.po' files.  Unless
translations are disabled, all those available are installed together
with the package.  However, the environment variable `LINGUAS' may be
set, prior to configuration, to limit the installed set.  `LINGUAS'
should then contain a space separated list of two-letter codes, stating
which languages are allowed."

So LINGUAS (say "setenv LINGUAS en") plays a role ONLY when building...

Now this works well with say 9 packages out of 10 (and the vast majority
of the exceptions seem gnome-related).
So unsetting it for all builds would defeat everything.


For information, the problems seem to be of 2 sorts :
a) In some cases it stems from lines in the Installscript
   mkdir -p %i/share
   mv %i/lib/locale %i/share
where one doesn't test before the mv whether %i/lib/locale exists
This seems rather trivial to fix, and might very theoretically be argued
as being an error in the InstallScript..
b) The other sort of problem yields things like :

cat-id-tbl.c changed
cd . && rm -f stamp-cat-id && echo timestamp >
stamp-cat-id
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `en.gmo',
needed by `all-yes'. Stop.
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
### make failed, exit code 2

I didn't look yet what was the cause for this, but conceivably that type
of error requires to patch the source...

So I could also see a rationale for an answer of the style:
Let's first fix the first type of errors , and try to get an idea of the 
number
of packages where the second type occurs..

I fully understand that the maintainers resources in time are stretched
very thin, and possibly that hence a first priority would be to get the 
binary
distribution OK...
On the other hand, fink did invest a lot to get gettext working 
properly...

?

Jean-Francois Mertens


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