manual installing a locale doens't work

[gerard@…]

From: Sascha M\374ller <dev@…> To: <lfs-dev@…> Subject: glibc locales Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 00:51:22 +0100 (CET)

Chapter 6, "Installing Glibc-2.2.5": "An alternative to running make localedata/install-locales is to only install those locales which you need or want. This can be achieved using the localedef command. Information on this can be found in the INSTALL file in the glibc-2.2.5 tree." I think the INSTALL instructions expect that there is already a directory /usr/lib/locale This directory must be created before trying to install a locale, or else you will get a confusing error message when executing localedef. Perhaps this should be mentioned somewhere?

[gimli@…]

Confirmed, same here

[gerard@…]

you can run localedef just fine. You need to create the /lib/locale/<localename> directory first, but once you do that, it'll put all the files there nicely.

[gerard@…]

Correction, the localename directory will be created, just mkdir /usr/lib/locale and all will be fine.

well, it will install the files. I haven't tested if it works...that's for somebody else to do.

A note to mkdir added to the book.