Bug 91494 – locale (*.gmo) files can't be found by gtkballs

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Kir Kolyshkin 2005-05-04 16:08:58 UTC]

I have set up russian locale and run gtkballs, but interface is still in English. stracing the binary revealed that it looks for locale files under /usr/games/share/locale/ directory, but in fact *gmo files are installed to /usr/share/games/locale/. Further investigation shown that this is caused by a bug in gtkballs, which is triggered by the case if configure is run with --datadir other than $prefix/locale, which is exactly what Gentoo's games.eclass is doing. So, this is an upstream bug triggered by somewhat unusual (but still correct) flags to configure. I have already sent a patch fixing that to the gtkballs maintainer; still this is probably worth fixing in Gentoo as well.

So, if you want to fix the bug here in Gentoo, I will attach a patch to gtkballs' configure.in and configure, as well as a patch for gtkballs ebuild.

[Comment 1 Kir Kolyshkin 2005-05-04 16:10:22 UTC]

Created attachment 58082 [details, diff]
patch to fix localedir in configure.in and configure

I chose to patch configure as well in order to avoid running autoconf.

[Comment 2 Kir Kolyshkin 2005-05-04 16:13:42 UTC]

Created attachment 58083 [details, diff]
patch to ebuild adding 'epatch' to src_unpack()

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2005-05-04 18:14:09 UTC]

thanks, gtkballs-3.1.5-r1 now in portage !