[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Mac OS X (PR#13287)

["Christian Knoke" <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13287 >


[full quote for bug tracker purpose]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:17:15AM -0700, Nathan Brazil wrote:
> I am not sure if I am on the freeciv-dev mailing list.  I am on the  
> developers and developers2 mailing lists.
> 
> Regardless, my mail filters were set up incorrectly, so I  
> accidentally trashed quite a few E-mails....  :-(
> 
> In any case, I've played around language support only a little bit,  
> and the results thus far aren't promising.
> 
> For instance, if I manually invoke the game client after setting the  
> LANG environment variable to de, a few elements would change, most of  
> the game remains in English.  In fact, whenever I try to run  
> civclient with the LANG environment variable set to some value, I get  
> the following warning message:
> 
> (civclient:672): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
>         Using the fallback 'C' locale.
> 
> To be honest, I am not sure why it is not working.  My packages are  
> built with the --with-included-gettext and --disable-nls flags.  Do  
> these settings affect localization any?

I guess they do. 

  --disable-nls           do not use Native Language Support

will build without any translations.

> On Jul 6, 2005, at 2:31 PM, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> 
> >Christian Knoke wrote:
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>can you tell me, who is in charge for the Mac OS X package (
> >>http://www.freeciv.org/index.php/Download )?
> >>
> >>Can anyone confirm that translations do not work with this package?
> >>( http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13287 )
> >>
> >>Can anybody confirm the opposite?
> >>
> >>Which other ways do a Mac User have to get Freeciv running beside  
> >>this
> >>package? Guess compiling is not an option.
> >>
> >
> >Nathan Brazil is the packager.  I assume he reads freeciv-dev but I've
> >cc'd him anyway.
> >
> >There should be macos instructions on the INSTALL page.  Anyone can
> >write them.  They should explain how to install from package or  
> >from source.
> >
> >And, I have no idea whether translations work.  But if you compile  
> >from
> >source and use gettext then they surely should.  On the other hand
> >freeciv has some issues with fixed directory paths (there's a hack in
> >configure.ac to "fix" this on win32).
> >
> >-jason
> 

Christian

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