Bug 91494

Summary:	locale (*.gmo) files can't be found by gtkballs
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Kir Kolyshkin <kir>
Component:	[OLD] Games	Assignee:	Gentoo Games <games>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	patch to fix localedir in configure.in and configure patch to ebuild adding 'epatch' to src_unpack()

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 gentoo-dev

2005-05-04 18:14:09 UTC

thanks, gtkballs-3.1.5-r1 now in portage !