Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 17:38:00 GMT From: FUJISHIMA Satsuki <sf@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: compatibility locale data for legacy binaries Message-ID: <200505041738.j44Hc0LP036893@freefall.freebsd.org>
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In recent -CURRENT on-disk format of locale data files have been changed. This means legacy binaries which are aware of non-ASCII locales no longer work properly(setlocale() fails unconditionally.) To fix this issue(Thanks to Ruslan), we should install legacy locale data files to somewhere, and point environment variable PATH_LOCALE there. To achieve this just like misc/compat4x port, I made a port compat4x-localedata which installs locale data files taken from 4.11-RELEASE into /usr/local/share/compat/locale. When you want a locale-aware legacy binary working properly, just set environment like this: env PATH_LOCALE=/usr/local/share/compat/locale COMMAND and COMMAND runs fine. Setting this variable in COMMAND's startup script is also fine. Don't set it in your login shell or it break non-legacy, 6.0 binaries. Any comments are appreciated. port tarball: http://people.freebsd.org/~sf/compat4x-localedata.tar.gz distfiles: http://people.freebsd.org/~sf/compat4x-localedata-alpha-4.11.tar.bz2 http://people.freebsd.org/~sf/compat4x-localedata-i386-4.11.tar.bz2
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