Problem solved.. sort of. In case anyone else runs into this problem, see: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563034 Joey On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 17:22, Joey Mingrone <joey@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A bit more information from my earlier post below... > > The relevant parts of the author's configure.in seem to be: > > ##### > GETTEXT_PACKAGE=parcellite > AC_SUBST(GETTEXT_PACKAGE) > AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(GETTEXT_PACKAGE, "$GETTEXT_PACKAGE", [gettext package]) > > ALL_LINGUAS="de es hu ja pt_BR sv" > AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT() > AC_PROG_INTLTOOL([0.23]) > > parcellitelocaledir='${prefix}/${DATADIRNAME}/locale' > AC_SUBST(parcellitelocaledir) > > AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) > ### > > I thought the problem was that ${DATADIRNAME} contained 'lib' instead > of 'share', but when I hardcode the value for parcellitelocaledir to > /usr/local/share/locale I see changes in the make output to show > ...-DPARCELLITELOCALEDIR=/usr/local/share/locale, but the files still > end up getting installed in /usr/local/lib/locale. > > Joey > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:55, Joey Mingrone <joey@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello; >> >> I'm still working on the FreeBSD port I wrote about a few days ago. >> >> I think the last main hurdle is to get the gettext catalog files to >> install in /usr/local/share/locale/ instead of the default >> /usr/local/lib/locale/ (when configure is run with no arguments). >> >> Even when I run: >> >> ./configure --localedir=/usr/local/share/locale >> >> the directory tree starting at /usr/local/lib/locale is created (e.g. >> /usr/local/lib/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/parcellite.mo gets installed). >> >> The source is still available at >> http://mingrone.org/misc/parcellite-0.9.1 for anyone willing to take a >> look. >> >> Thanks for any help in advance. >> >> As an aside, it seems strange the catalog files get installed in >> /usr/local/lib/locale/ since it says on the gettext manual page: "The >> default value for dir_name is system specific. For the GNU library, >> and for packages adhering to its conventions, it's: >> /usr/local/share/locale". >> >> Joey >> > _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf