Re: [bug-gettext] How to test uninstalled program?

[Bruno Haible]

Reuben Thomas wrote:
> So, I tried "make install", and now I get no translations. I
> configured hello with
> 
> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --exec-prefix=$HOME/local/`uname -m`
> 
> but ltrace tells me that gettext is looking for message catalogs in 
> /usr/local:
> 
> bindtextdomain("hello", "/usr/local/share/locale")
>  = "/usr/local/share/locale"
> 
> This looks like a bug in hello's build system

This is quite strange. When I take hello-2.6, configure it like you did,
and build it, I have the following definitions in src/Makefile:

prefix = /home/bruno/local
datarootdir = ${prefix}/share
datadir = ${datarootdir}
localedir = $(datadir)/locale
DEFS = -DLOCALEDIR=\"$(localedir)\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H

and src/hello.c passes the value of LOCALEDIR as second argument to
bindtextdomain().

Where does your build tree of 'hello' differ?

Bruno
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