Re: Problem in gettext generated Makefile.in.in

[Bruno Haible]

peter karlsson writes:
> The po/Makefile.in.in installed by gettext contains the line
> 
>   localedir = $(datadir)/locale
> 
> but I think it should be
> 
>   localedir = @localedir@
> 
> instead, so that datadir can be moved independently from the localedir.

The locale dependent data is part of the data altogether. Why do you
want to move them separately?

For @localedir@ to work, you would also need autoconf support, so that
1. @localedir@ gets substituted,
2. configure accepts a --localedir option.
This is not the case now.

> I can't get the messages to be found if I move the datadir (for example to
> /usr/share/programname instead of /usr/share). In this case I would like to
> be able to have localedir fixed to /usr/share/locale even though I moved the
> datadir.

The way to implement that is not to change @datadir@ but to modify the
program's Makefiles so that it uses @datadir@/$(PACKAGE) instead of
@datadir@ in certain places. The GNU standards even recommend
@datadir@/$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION), not simply @datadir@/$(PACKAGE).

Bruno