Re: gettext

[Tristan Van Berkom]

Roger Leigh wrote:

> Are all the required files available in the chroot?  Run the program
> with strace, and see if any open() calls fail.  Some files will be
> optional, but you may find some data files (e.g. locale stuff) are
> missing.

strace in chroot does this:

================== setlocale(LC_ALL, "") ======================
ioctl(2147483647, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbffffa38) = -1 EBADF
(Bad file descriptor)
brk(0x804c000)                          = 0x804c000
open("/usr/lib/charset.alias", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
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Anyway, no use printing it all here, the offensive line is:

ioctl(2147483647, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbffffa38) = -1 EBADF

Which appears also in bindtextdomain(), textdomain() and dgettext().

the strace of the same program compiled & run outside of the environment
also yields the line:
    open("/usr/lib/charset.alias", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT

So I'm sure that this alias file doesn't need to be present

[...]
> setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
>
> is rather more standard, and it will make sure LC_CTYPE etc. are
> correctly set up (needed to know the output codeset).

Good point, I ended up trying that out yesterday and, no luck :-(

> LC_MESSAGES can be overridden by LANGUAGE and LC_ALL.  You might want
> to try one of those instead of LC_MESSAGES.  Also, gettext caches
> strings and only rereads messages if it's notified the environment has
> changed.

Ok, but if I setup setlocale(LC_ALL, "") and make sure that there is
no $LANGUAGE in the environment, then LC_MESSAGES should be good,
right ?

In this case, I'm sure that just setting setlocale(LC_ALL, "") is
already broken :-(


Thanks for your input though ;-)


Cheers,
                               -Tristan

========================= TEST PROGRAM ========================
#include <glib.h>
#include <locale.h>
void main()

{
    g_print ("default LC_ALL locale: %s\n", setlocale (LC_ALL, ""));
    g_print ("new domain dir: %s\n",
             bindtextdomain ("tristan", "/home/vantr/locale"));
    g_print ("new domain: %s\n", textdomain ("tristan"));
    g_print ("spanish LC_MESSAGES locale: %s\n", setlocale (LC_MESSAGES,
"spanish"));
    g_print ("dgettext returns %s\n",
             dgettext ("tristan", "english phrase"));
}
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