libX11/locale problems

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:02:41AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:57:04PM +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:44:03PM +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > > Anyone who already uses a modularized build of libX11?
> > > 
> > > # LANG=POSIX LC_ALL=POSIX xeyes
> > > Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
> > > Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default
> > > 
> > > With stracing any X11 application I could figure out, that the locale
> > > files are still searched below /usr/lib/X11/locale instead of
> > > /usr/share/X11/locale - which seems to be the new default location
> > > now.
> > 
> > Hmm ... after the last commit by Daniel (1.12 lib/X11/configure.ac)
> > the behaviour has somewhat changed. Instead of /usr/lib/X11/locale now
> > "${datadir}/X11/locale" is used. Bug or feature?
> > 
> > Probably you currently need to specify "--datadir=/usr/share" for
> > configure, but I didn't verify this yet ...
> 
> Feature.  All the nls/* stuff is currently installed into the same
> place, so right now it's just being entirely consistent with itself.

I'm wondering about the default.

  open("${datadir}/X11/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY)

when not specifying "--datadir" ...

Stefan

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