From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: "Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas" <rosen644835@gmail.com>
Cc: 45368@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#45368] [PATCH core-updates 0/3] Help2man updates
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2021 16:12:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dou12cg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875z4uyoz5.fsf@gmail.com> ("Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas"'s message of "Tue, 22 Dec 2020 14:01:02 +0100")
¡Hola!
Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas <rosen644835@gmail.com> skribis:
> The following patches do some work on help2man, namely:
> 1. Allow the generation of localized manual pages.
> 2. Update the package to the latest version.
>
> To perform the first objective, the library perl-gettext was imported
> from CPAN. Its path is encoded directly on the resulting binary to
> ensure it is loaded, as perl and the library should be propagated to the
> environment in order to achieve the same result with PERL5LIB.
Nice.
> Nonetheless, currently there are two open issues with this approach:
>
> - The library used for a cross compilation could be different, but the
> generated version is used for its own documentation generation. Are
> the inputs correctly placed? Should it be patched on a later stage to
> the final input?
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?
Anyhow that doesn’t sound like a showstopper to me.
> - 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.
Thanks!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-03 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-22 13:01 [bug#45368] [PATCH core-updates 0/3] Help2man updates Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2020-12-11 22:45 ` [bug#45368] [PATCH core-updates 1/3] gnu: Add perl-gettext Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2020-12-11 22:46 ` [bug#45368] [PATCH core-updates 2/3] gnu: help2man: Add optional dependencies Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2020-12-11 22:47 ` [bug#45368] [PATCH core-updates 3/3] gnu: help2man: Update to 1.47.16 Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2021-01-03 15:12 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-01-06 16:45 ` [bug#45368] [PATCH core-updates 0/3] Help2man updates Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2021-01-07 11:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-07 12:52 ` Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2021-02-21 22:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-10-21 19:45 ` bug#45368: " Maxim Cournoyer
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