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Difference between --localedir and NLSPATH #58

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firasuke opened this issue Nov 26, 2022 · 4 comments
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Difference between --localedir and NLSPATH #58

firasuke opened this issue Nov 26, 2022 · 4 comments

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@firasuke
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As in the title, what's the difference between the two? and why is --localedir only mentioned in build.md and not when running ./configure --help?
@gavinhoward
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So I originally added --localedir because it was one of the standard GNU configure options. This was before I understood that GNU does not use POSIX locales.

--localedir does not make sense when a program is using POSIX locales, so I've removed references to LOCALEDIR and friends from everything.

Does that answer your question?

@firasuke
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So --localedir shouldn't be used?

@gavinhoward
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You are correct; it should not be used.

It wasn't used to change anything in the Makefile, so it merely just didn't do anything. With the change I made, the configure script should more give an error if it is given.

@firasuke
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Ok cool, thanks for clarifying. Closing..

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