Re: Fw: gettext support

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:42:26PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 09:56:07PM +0100, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> > > > >         -Copy ca.mo to /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo
> > > >
> > > > Languages files should go to a subdir of $PREFIX. E.g. to
> > > > $PREFIX/langs/$LANG.mo linux directories may be inaccessible
> > >
> > > Now the gettext module will search in $prefix/locale/lang.mo, where lang
> > > is the variable that the user will setup in grub.cfg (e.g. ca for
> > > catalan) and $prefix is usually /boot/grub
> >
> > Uhm I'm not sure I agree on this one.  Sure, they may be inaccessible, but
> > only in very rare setups.  On the other hand, we _still_ need a .mo in the
> > standard directory, because some strings in grub-mkconfig are critical
> > (they generate text that populates menu entry titles).  So that would mean
> > installing two .mo files.  Is it really worth the hassle?
> >
> It's not a problem. We need two locations anyway: one where make install
> copies them and the other one where ./grub-install copies them. Would it be
> possible to use /usr/share/grub/locale/$LANG.mo rather than
> /usr/share/locale/$LANG/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo? It would make grub-install
> easier

No, for system locales we need to use standard locations, or the userland
gettext won't find them.

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Robert Millan

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