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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add and use 'localedir' variable
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On 9/24/12 4:04 PM, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Christopher Larson <kergoth@gmail.co=
m> wrote:
>>> From: Christopher Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com>
>>>
>>> This avoids the hardcoding of ${libdir}/locale which is all over the =
place,
>>> and will facilitate use of ${exec_prefix}/lib/locale instead of
>>> ${libdir}/locale.
>>
>> what is adavantage of letting use ${exec_prefix}/lib/locale ? Do you h=
ave a case
>> where you share locale between multilibs ?
>
> This is the case by default for all eglibc builds that set libdir to
> the default. See https://gist.github.com/3756705 =E2=80=94 there's anot=
her
> block just like that for all the other 64 bit archs for eglibc. When
> we pass =E2=80=94libdir=3D/usr/lib64, it skips this logic.
>
> So changing it would just bring us inline with the default eglibc
> behavior. The binary locale files are, as far as I'm aware, a
> relatively arch independent binary format. There's no point or benefit
> to having lib32 vs lib64 copies, they'd just be duplicated content.

They are endian and locale word size dependent.  (It just happens to be t=
hat all=20
of our architectures use the unit32-aligned=3D4 structures.)  :)

So they are sharable between ABIs on the same arch for sure.

--Mark

> If it wasn't for the forthcoming 1.3 release, I'd have included the
> proposed change to the default localedir to ${exec_prefix}/lib/locale
> with this patch.
>