On 04.06.25 06:03, Thomas Munro wrote:
One way to move to a newer glibc-based Linux distribution but keep the
locales working the same* without keeping the associated zombie C code
alive is to find the source system's collation definition source
files, compile them with the localedef on the target system and point
to the top-level directory with the environment variable LOCPATH.
That runs directly into the naivity of commit d5ac14f9's
gnu_get_libc_version() kludge. So here's a patch that allows a brave
user of that recompilation technique to drop a custom version string
into a file called one of:
* $LOCPATH/<collcollate>/LC_COLLATE.version
* $LOCPATH/<collcollate>/version
* $LOCPATH/LC_COLLATE.version
* $LOCPATH/version
Nice idea.
The patch looks mostly straightforward.
I wonder why you want to capture LOCPATH early in main.c. It seems
sufficient to look it up when needed?
