Hi gettext,
while talking about multiarch the issue was raised that
/usr/share/locale/*/*package.mo
is not identical across all architectures as multiarch would require.
Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes:
> Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> writes:
>> Steve Langasek, le Wed 29 Jul 2009 19:01:57 +0200, a écrit :
>
>>> the only requirement is that any files shipped there are identical
there == /usr/share/
>>> between packages of the same version for multiple architectures.
>>
>> That's however not true for .mo files, for endianness, typically.
>
> However, you *can* share the same .mo files on each platform, since the
> gettext code copes with endianness issues at runtime if need be.
So we would have to define a default endianness for creating such
files. A patch to gettext to create them allways little endian (or the
other way) seems in order.
Thoughts from the maintainer?
MfG
Goswin
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