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[PATCH core-updates 0/3] Help2man updates
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Message #20 received at 45368 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Hi,
Sorry for the delay. I've pushed these changes from 4343ca8ba5 to
cfe606572d, with an additional TODO comment on 378df42fc5 about the
not-so-translated manual pages.
Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
> If the problem is just the generation of help2man’s own documentation
> when cross-compiling, perhaps we need to add itself as a native input
> when cross-compiling?
Yup, that sounds the cleanest solution. Nonetheless...
> Anyhow that doesn’t sound like a showstopper to me.
It currently isn't at all, as it says as soon as I tried:
[...] build system `perl' does not support cross builds
Also, they use a LD_PRELOAD library for the translation, which seems
suspicious too.
>> - The compilation tries to generate translated man pages and sets LC_ALL
>> to values not available on glibc-utf8-locales, therefore only
>> languages available there have their manual page properly translated,
>> such as french. You can see the following lines (and more) on the
>> build log, which warn about this issue:
>> --------------------------------8<-------------------------------- sh:
>> warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (uk_UA.UTF-8) sh:
>> warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (vi_VN.UTF-8)
>> -------------------------------->8--------------------------------
>>
>> IMHO, a change on gnu-build-system to allow the selection of the locales
>> used for the build could be the best way forward, but I haven't
>> implemented it yet. WDYT?
>
> Yes, that’s a good idea. There’s already a procedure to generate a
> locale package IIRC. We just have to make sure its result is properly
> memoized so that performance doesn’t suffer.
I was thinking about the implicit input "locales" and replacing it with
a package generated based on the arguments provided to the build system,
but I guess you're thinking about build-locale from (gnu build locale)
and its usage for the system locales on (gnu system locale). Should it
be then another derivation at (guix build-system gnu) level? Any
pointer about this is more than welcome.
> Thanks!
Thank you. :-)
Happy hacking!
Miguel
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