Translations in GNU Hello are not reachable.

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Compiling GNU Hello from the tarball, translations were put in
/usr/local/share/locale/....
Apparently this is not acceptable to the standard _( ) function.

Is there some configuration file or environment variable that would add a
directory to
the places to look for the .mo files?

Below is the conversation I had with bug-hello.

++ kevin



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I'm having trouble with localization for the hello program.  I built from
the hello-2.6 tarball, and notice that locale files are going into
/usr/local/share/local.  The use of "local" does not occur in any other
program, so
I suspect that "hello" is not seeing the translations.

Can you clarify?

Kevin O'Gorman, PhD.  6-2986



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Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 20:53:18 GMT
From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
Subject: Re: l10n for hello
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   I'm having trouble with localization for the hello program.  I built
   from the hello-2.6 tarball, and notice that locale files are going
   into /usr/local/share/local.  The use of "local" does not occur in
   any other program, so I suspect that "hello" is not seeing the
   translations.

It is true that if you build from the original source, /usr/local is the
standard installation prefix.  If the system gettext does not look
there, I'm afraid that I don't know how to tell it to, and a quick look
in the gettext manual didn't help.  I suggest taking a closer look at
whatever documentation is around, and writing to address@hidden if
no joy.

Or perhaps someone else on this list will know the answer.

Sorry,
k



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