Dear David,
in message <200509011009.24114.david.jander at protonic.nl> you wrote:
>
> I am using ELDK-3.1, and I am not getting i18n to work. I have looked at
> recent changelog of ELDK and newer (CVS) versions don't seem to fix any bug
> in that direction.
There is no fix yet, but the problem is known :-(
> The installation seems ok, the locale-files are all there as it seems.
No.
> I have tried this as a test:
>
> # LANG=es_ES strace tar
>
> in the output, I can see these relevant lines:
>
> open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No
> such file or directory)
>
> - This does not matter.
It does. For the setlocale() call to succeed, an additional file is
needed, apart from the locale files themselves. It is a
locale-archive file in the /usr/lib/locale directory on the target.
This file is still missing in the ELDK glibc RPM.
> open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 3
>
> - OK, good. locale.alias is read
>
> open("/usr/lib/locale/es_ES/LC_IDENTIFICATION", O_RDONLY) = 3
>
> - Also looks fine, read the locales identification.
>
> open("/usr/lib/locale/es/LC_IDENTIFICATION", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such
> file or directory)
>
> - Here I am puzzled. Why? Maybe this is not important.
>
> Then there are no more calls to open or stat with files in "/usr/lib/locale"
> nor "/usr/share/locale" as argument, and I can't figure out why. What am I
> doing wrong? Is this version of glibc in ELDK broken?
There is a problem with locale support. The contents of the
'locale-archive' file is endian-dependent. This means that we can't
use the existing tools on the x86 (= little endian) ELDK build host
to generate it for a big-endian target.
As a workaround, the locale files can be generated natively on the
target, using for example the following command:
# localedef -i de_DE -f ISO-8859-1 de_DE
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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