Re: gettext catalog files installation location

[Joey Mingrone]

Problem solved.. sort of.  In case anyone else runs into this problem,
see: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563034

Joey

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 17:22, Joey Mingrone <address@hidden> wrote:
> A bit more information from my earlier post below...
>
> The relevant parts of the author's configure.in seem to be:
>
> #####
> GETTEXT_PACKAGE=parcellite
> AC_SUBST(GETTEXT_PACKAGE)
> AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(GETTEXT_PACKAGE, "$GETTEXT_PACKAGE", [gettext package])
>
> ALL_LINGUAS="de es hu ja pt_BR sv"
> AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT()
> AC_PROG_INTLTOOL([0.23])
>
> parcellitelocaledir='${prefix}/${DATADIRNAME}/locale'
> AC_SUBST(parcellitelocaledir)
>
> AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])
> ###
>
> I thought the problem was that ${DATADIRNAME} contained 'lib' instead
> of 'share', but when I hardcode the value for parcellitelocaledir to
> /usr/local/share/locale I see changes in the make output to show
> ...-DPARCELLITELOCALEDIR=/usr/local/share/locale, but the files still
> end up getting installed in /usr/local/lib/locale.
>
> Joey
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:55, Joey Mingrone <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hello;
>>
>> I'm still working on the FreeBSD port I wrote about a few days ago.
>>
>> I think the last main hurdle is to get the gettext catalog files to
>> install in /usr/local/share/locale/ instead of the default
>> /usr/local/lib/locale/ (when configure is run with no arguments).
>>
>> Even when I run:
>>
>> ./configure --localedir=/usr/local/share/locale
>>
>> the directory tree starting at /usr/local/lib/locale is created (e.g.
>> /usr/local/lib/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/parcellite.mo gets installed).
>>
>> The source is still available at
>> http://mingrone.org/misc/parcellite-0.9.1 for anyone willing to take a
>> look.
>>
>> Thanks for any help in advance.
>>
>> As an aside, it seems strange the catalog files get installed in
>> /usr/local/lib/locale/ since it says on the gettext manual page: "The
>> default value for dir_name is system specific. For the GNU library,
>> and for packages adhering to its conventions, it's:
>> /usr/local/share/locale".
>>
>> Joey
>>
>