Re: [PATCH] Fix locale installation

[Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat>]

Hello,

On Mar/19/2010, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 08:35:23PM +0000, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> > On Mar/19/2010, Colin Watson wrote:
> > >  # Copy gettext files
> > >  mkdir -p ${grubdir}/locale/
> > > -for file in ${grubdir}/locale/*.mo ${pkglibdir}/locale/*.mo; do
> > > -    if test -f "$file"; then
> > > -        cp -f "$file" ${grubdir}/locale/
> > > +for dir in ${localedir}/*; do
> > > +    if test -f "$dir/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo"; then
> > > +        cp -f "$dir/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo" "${grubdir}/locale/${dir##*/}.mo"
> > >      fi
> > >  done
> > 
> > (I'll use shell variables in a bit "on my own way")
> > 
> > AFAIK the files are in po/$lang.{po,mo}, right? (at least in
> > my system without using another directory for the building, I need to
> > look in the other issue soon)
> 
> In the source, they live in po/$lang.po and po/$lang.mo.  However, when
> you run 'make install', they end up in
> $datadir/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo.  grub-install should be
> looking at the paths used by 'make install', rather than the paths in
> the source tree which generally won't be accessible.

ahh, yeap, I confused grub-install and make install

> > I thought that make install was copying from po/$lang.mo to
> > /usr/share/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo, but you are copying already
> > from some structure in $localedir/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo. What am I missing?
> 
> You just misread my code slightly, I think.  I'm actually copying from

I mixed grub-install/make install and what you was doing there...

> $localedir/*/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo.  My code will copy (e.g.)
> /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo to /boot/grub/locale/es.mo.
> This seems better than creating lots of subdirectories of
> /boot/grub/locale/.

Yeap, in that case you are right and the code looks fine :-)

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