Question about ELDK and i18n...

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear David,

in message <200509011009.24114.david.jander at protonic.nl> you wrote:
> 
> I am using ELDK-3.1, and I am not getting i18n to work. I have looked at 
> recent changelog of ELDK and newer (CVS) versions don't seem to fix any bug 
> in that direction.

There is no fix yet, but the problem is known :-(

> The installation seems ok, the locale-files are all there as it seems.

No.

> I have tried this as a test:
> 
> # LANG=es_ES strace tar
> 
> in the output, I can see these relevant lines:
> 
> open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No 
> such file or directory)
> 
> - This does not matter.

It does. For the setlocale() call to succeed, an additional file is
needed, apart from the locale files themselves. It is a
locale-archive file in the /usr/lib/locale directory on the target.
This file is still missing in the ELDK glibc RPM.

> open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 3
> 
> - OK, good. locale.alias is read
> 
> open("/usr/lib/locale/es_ES/LC_IDENTIFICATION", O_RDONLY) = 3
> 
> - Also looks fine, read the locales identification.
> 
> open("/usr/lib/locale/es/LC_IDENTIFICATION", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such 
> file or directory)
> 
> - Here I am puzzled. Why? Maybe this is not important.
> 
> Then there are no more calls to open or stat with files in "/usr/lib/locale" 
> nor "/usr/share/locale" as argument, and I can't figure out why. What am I 
> doing wrong? Is this version of glibc in ELDK broken?

There  is  a  problem  with  locale  support.  The  contents  of  the
'locale-archive'  file  is endian-dependent. This means that we can't
use the existing tools on the x86 (= little endian) ELDK  build  host
to generate it for a big-endian target.

As a workaround, the locale files can be generated  natively  on  the
target, using for example the following command:

# localedef -i de_DE -f ISO-8859-1 de_DE


Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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