Hi!
I just noticed (and it took a little time to figure this out) that
the /etc/sysconfig/i18n may be problematic.
I did just a complete recompile of all GNOME libs and apps (the "normal"
distribution tarballs, not the mdk SRPMS) and didn't have any locales
installed afterwards.
After examining the ./configure scripts I became aware that it must
be the fault of the LINGUAS variable. But even "export LINGUAS="
before configuring did not help.
When I changed "LINGUAS=de_DE:de" to "LINGUAS=" in /etc/sysconfig/i18n
and logged in again, it was fine afterwards. Now all the locales
got installed when trying again.
The problematic parts in all those configure scripts was determining
which catalogs should be installed, eg in mc-4.5.42:
if test "x$CATOBJEXT" != "x"; then
if test "x$ALL_LINGUAS" = "x"; then
LINGUAS=
else
echo $ac_n "checking for catalogs to be installed""... $ac_c" 1>&6
echo "configure:3445: checking for catalogs to be installed" >&5
NEW_LINGUAS=
for lang in ${LINGUAS=$ALL_LINGUAS}; do
case "$ALL_LINGUAS" in
*$lang*) NEW_LINGUAS="$NEW_LINGUAS $lang" ;;
esac
done
LINGUAS=$NEW_LINGUAS
echo "$ac_t""$LINGUAS" 1>&6
fi
if test -n "$LINGUAS"; then
for lang in $LINGUAS; do CATALOGS="$CATALOGS $lang$CATOBJEXT"; done
fi
fi
This was not working with LINGUAS set in i18n. Just to tell you...
Kai.
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Kai Nielsen, Berlin Time and again I tell myself
"She turns me on I'll stay clean tonight
But I'm only dancing" But the little green wheels are following me
Oh no, not again
