Re: [Dragora-bug] [DRAGORA] Chinese support - Xiaoy]

[Matias A. Fonzo]

Hi Xiaoy,

Thanks for the build script and thanks for the instructions. :-)

I'm going to check/build fcitx and his font -- in order to include into
the distribution.

> ---------------------------- Mensaje original ----------------------------
> Asunto: [DRAGORA] Chinese support - Xiaoy
> De:     "stragapede peppe" <address@hidden>
> Fecha:  Sab, 19 de Noviembre de 2011, 9:42 am
> Para:   address@hidden
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> So, finally i decided to write a little tutorial on how to make chinese
> language support available on Dragora.
>
> Let's start from how to setup runlevel 3. First of all we need to install
> a
> chinese input method (fonts are optional) and then setup the environments
> variables:
>
> 1) Get latest Fcitx chinese input method source tarball from
> http://www.fcitx.org/download/ (at the time of this tutorial last version
> is 3.6.3, but you can modify the scripts to fit newer versions), create a
> directory in you home called fcitx, create a file inside ti called
> fcitx-build and paste inside the file the content below, then chmod +x the
> build file (make sure the build file is in the same directory of the
> source) and execute the build ex: sudo ./fcitx-build. When finished
> install
> the package with the command: # pkg add fcitx-[version number]-i486-1.tlz
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #  Copyright (C) 2011  Matias A. Fonzo, <address@hidden>
> #
> #  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
> #  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> #  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
> #  (at your option) any later version.
> #
> #  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> #  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> #  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> #  GNU General Public License for more details.
> #
> #  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> #  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>
> set -e
>
> CWD=$(pwd)
>
> TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/sources}
> OUT=${OUT:-/tmp/packages}
>
> P=fcitx
> V=${V:-3.6.3}
> ARCH=${ARCH:-i486}
> B=${B:-1}
>
> # Flags for the compiler:
> DCFLAGS=${DCFLAGS:=-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686}
>
> # Parallel jobs for the compiler:
> JOBS=${JOBS:=-j4}
>
> PKG=${TMP}/package-${P}
>
> rm -rf $PKG
> mkdir -p $PKG $OUT
>
> rm -rf ${TMP}/${P}-${V}
> echo "Uncompressing the tarball..."
> tar -jxvf ${CWD}/${P}-${V}.tar.bz2 -C $TMP
>
> cd ${TMP}/${P}-${V}
>
> # Set sane ownerships and permissions:
> chown -R 0:0 .
> find . \
>  \( -perm 2777 -o -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 -o
> -perm
> 511 \
>  \) -exec chmod 755 {} + \
>  -o \
>  \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 -o -perm 440 -o -perm
> 400 \
>  \) -exec chmod 644 {} +
>
> CFLAGS="$DCFLAGS" \
> CXXFLAGS="$DCFLAGS" \
> ./configure \
>  --prefix=/usr \
>  --sysconfdir=/etc \
>  --infodir=/usr/info \
>  --mandir=/usr/man \
>  --localstatedir=/var \
>  --disable-static \
>  --enable-shared \
>  --program-prefix="" \
>  --program-suffix="" \
>  --enable-gtk \
>  --enable-utp \
>  --enable-libnotify \
>  --enable-libcanberra \
>  --enable-cli \
>  --enable-daemon \
>  --with-inotify \
>  --build=${ARCH}-dragora-linux-gnu
>
> make $JOBS V=1 || make;
> make install DESTDIR=$PKG
>
> # Compress .info page(s)?:
> if [[ -d ${PKG}/usr/info ]]; then
>   ( cd ${PKG}/usr/info
>     rm -f dir  # Redundancy.
>     gzip -9N *.info*
>   )
> fi
>
> # Compress and link .man page(s)?:
> if [[ -d ${PKG}/usr/man ]]; then
>   ( cd ${PKG}/usr/man
>     find . -type f -exec gzip -9N '{}' +
>     find . -type l | while read file ; do
>       ln -sf $(readlink $file).gz ${file}.gz
>       rm $file
>     done
>   )
> fi
>
> # Copy the documentation:
> mkdir -p ${PKG}/usr/doc/${P}-${V}
> cp -a \
>  AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog NEWS README \
>  ${PKG}/usr/doc/${P}-${V}
>
> cd $PKG
>
> # Strip binaries & libraries:
> find . -type f | xargs file | awk '/ELF/ && /executable/ || /shared
> object/' | \
>  cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || :
>
> # Copy the description files:
> mkdir -p description install
> cp ${CWD}/description/?? description/
> zcat ${CWD}/post-install.gz > install/post-install
>
> # Build the package:
> makepkg -l ${OUT}/${P}-${V}-${ARCH}-${B}.tlz
>
>
> 2) create a file called .xinitrc in your home directory and paste the
> content below using the editor you prefer (you can use vim, in Dragora is
> installed by default, or mousepad if you prefer an editor in X graphical
> environment), then save it and close your editor.
>
> #.xinitrc chinese Dragora support begins
> export LANG=zh_CN.gb2312
> export LC_CTYPE="zh_CN.GBK" #use this for a complete chinese
>                             #environment
>
> #export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" #replace this withe above LC_CTYPE
>                                #variable for an english environment
>                                #with chinese support
> export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
> export QT_IM_MODULE=xim
> export XMODIFIERS="@im=fcitx"
>
> fcitx &
>
> xfce4-session
> #.xinitrc chinese Dragora support ends
>
> 3) now kill X and restart fcitx session with $ startx. Your chinese
> environment should be set...
>
>
> For runlevel 4 follow the first step above (install fcitx), then in your
> home create a file called .xprofile and paste inside it the below content
> using the editor you prefer (you can use vim, in Dragora is installed by
> default, or mousepad if you prefer an editor in X graphical environment),
> then save it and close your editor. After that, just logout and restart
> your fcitx X session: chinese support should be available.
>
> #.xprofile chinese Dragora support begins
> export LANG=zh_CN.gb2312
> export LC_CTYPE="zh_CN.GBK" #use this for a complete chinese
>                             #environment
>
> #export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" #replace this withe above LC_CTYPE
>                                #variable for an english environment
>                                #with chinese support
> export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
> export QT_IM_MODULE=xim
> export XMODIFIERS="@im=fcitx"
>
> fcitx &
>
> #.xprofile chinese Dragora support ends
>
> Fonts (optional). To install chinese different type of fonts (they should
> have a better rendering then the default ones) download the fonts you like
> (you can try the fonts at
> http://fr.sourceforge.jp/projects/sfnet_wqy/downloads/wqy-zenhei/0.8.38%20%28Pangu%29/wqy-zenhei-0.8.38-1.tar.gz/)
> then copy them as root in /user/share/fonts/[your custom directory] and
> then run the command as root: fc-cache -vf. Your fonts should be available
> once you restart X.
>
> To report a bug or for suggestions on how to implement different input
> methods please send an email to the mailing list or wait for me in
> dragora's IRC chat channel ;-)
>
> Xiaoy