[Freeciv] Re: HELP!: I can't get native language support!

[Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2000/07/23 17:32 , Erik Sigra wrote:
>Hi,
>Today I wanted to try the local language support. I followed the
>instructions I found but it didn't work. The following is cut and pasted
>from my Konsole:
>
>
>freeciv@a77:~/stable/freeciv-1.11.4 > export LANG; LANG=de
>freeciv@a77:~/stable/freeciv-1.11.4 > echo $LANG
>de
>freeciv@a77:~/stable/freeciv-1.11.4 > civ
> 
>Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

This is a good sign.  It means that civclient is actually looking for a
non-English locale.

>freeciv@a77:~/stable/freeciv-1.11.4 > # Quitted client
>freeciv@a77:~/stable/freeciv-1.11.4 > ser
>This is the server for Freeciv version 1.11.4
>You can learn a lot about Freeciv at http://www.freeciv.org/
>1: Now accepting new client connections.
> 
>For introductory help, type 'help'.
>>  
>freeciv@a77:~/stable/freeciv-1.11.4 > # pressed Ctrl-C
>freeciv@a77:~/stable/freeciv-1.11.4 > rpm -q libc
>libc-2.1.3-65
>freeciv@a77:~/stable/freeciv-1.11.4 > rpm -q gettext
>gettext-0.10.35-132
>freeciv@a77:~/stable/freeciv-1.11.4 > rpm -q libz
>libz-1.1.3-138
>freeciv@a77:~/stable/freeciv-1.11.4 > rmdir /root
>rmdir: /root: Keine Berechtigung 
>
>This doesn't look like german at all, except for the very last command
>that has absolutely nothing to do with Freeciv. Excuse me for being a
>newbie on local language support, but what should I do?

Did you do a "make install", or are you just running out of the build
directory?  You either have to do a "make install" or you have to cheat.
Note that you may need to be root to "make install" (if you did your
"./configure" with the --prefix argument, you only need permission for that
directory).

Also, look in the config.h file generated by "./configure" for the value of
the LOCALEDIR constant.  If you look in the directory
"<LOCALEDIR>/de/LCMESSAGES", there should be a file called freeciv.mo --
*if* you've done a "make install".

jjm