Re: [Printing-architecture] [Gimp-print-devel] Common Printing Dialog: PPD extension specs updated

[Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>]

Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 02:13:15PM +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote:
>> Still all English. I have looked into the strace output and it seems to 
>> look for the translations in the system and not in the source tree:
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ...
>> open("/usr/lib/locale/cs.UTF8/LC_IDENTIFICATION", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT 
>> (No such file or directory)
> 
> This stuff isn't gutenprint's LC_MESSAGES, it's the system LC_* being
> loaded by libc (probably in its startup code).  This is fine.
> 
>> There must be some possibility to provide an appropriate search path. 
>> Would be bad if one would need to set a symlink from the source tree 
>> into the system (would make distro packaging impossible).
> 
> The search path is specified directly in genppd.c.  See baselocaledir
> with relation to bindtextdomain/textdomain and the -c option (which
> Robert's example used).  If this isn't working, the debug/verbose option
> and strace should show you why.
> 
> Note: you *must* have all the locales being used available, which are
> generated with localedef/locale-gen.  They should probably all be UTF-8
> locales as well (do we enforce this?).

Probably that is the problem. I must install them and make them build 
dependencies for any kind of package I make (Ubuntu, LSB). Does one 
really always need to install all locales to create internationalized 
packages?

    Till