On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 06:18:07PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 14 February 2008, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 04:46:22PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Karel Zak wrote:
> > > > Note that move libncursesw to /lib doesn't make sense because all
> > > > locale data are usually in /usr/share. Maybe we can move cfdisk to
> > > > /usr/sbin (because it's user-friend and more high-level util, ...).
> > >
> > > well the interface is currently broken when using a UTF8 locale that has
> > > a translation. for example, we now have russian translations, but
> > > they're broken when the locale defaults to russian unicode (ru_RU.UTF8).
> >
> > Yes, I understand. Well, let use the wide version -- the ideal
> > solution will be check for the library in /lib only.
>
> any thoughts on how to autodetect this nicely in configure ? or perhaps leave
Nicely? I have no clue... :-)
Well, this is probably fundamentally wrong idea, because you can
compile with --{prefix,bindir,sbindir,..}, "LDFLAGS=/strange/dir
./configure". The build system shouldn't expect fixed paths.
> it up to the package maintainers ?
Yes. That's their business.
> AC_ARG_ENABLE([ncursesw],[...],enable_ncursesw=$enableval,enable_ncursesw=no)
> this would default to never using the wide ncurses unless the package
> maintainer said --enable-ncursesw ...
Yes, but vice versa ... the default in util-linux is to support wide
chars, so we need --disable-ncursesw. Right?
> > What about to disable locale for systems without the wide version?
> >
> > #ifdef HAVE_NCURSESW
> > setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
> > bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
> > textdomain(PACKAGE);
> > #endif
>
> you mean "#ifndef" ? :)
No... here is NCURSESW (wide version) :-)
Karel
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