Re: [Monotone-debian] Re: [Monotone-devel] Please review nvm.man-page

[Thomas Keller]

Am 19.08.10 18:11, schrieb Francis Russell:
> In anticipation of the new man page stuff making it into the next
> monotone release and into Debian, I started trying to get the build
> scripts to generate man pages for all the supported languages.
> Unfortunately, trying to do this reliably is a little harder than I thought.
> 
> For example, setting LANG to anything other than one of the values
> listed in `locale -a` will still produce English output. However, I can
> get German output by setting LANGUAGE=de, but only if LANG isn't set to
> C or POSIX and depending on the system, there may be no other locales
> available. This behaviour is (mostly) explained in the gettext manual.
> 
> In other words, on a system where other locales may not have been
> enabled (such as an automated build environment), I can't seem to find a
> way of reliably getting monotone to output the manpages for different
> languages.

Right, this is unfortunately also what my research brought up. There is
a very old debian bug
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=114461> from Zack
which documents a related issue, the inability to define the location of
message catalogues on runtime, which I tried to get working within the
monotone build setup. The problem hasn't been resolved until today :(

Thomas.

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