Hi,
John Cavan wrote:
>
> Took me a while to figure out why none of my source RPMs would install
> the language files... seems that the lang.sh in /etc/profile.d sets the
> environment for LINGUAS which is used during configuration to determine
> the langauge catalogs to install. Problem is, most default to english,
> so if your LINGUAS variable is set to "en", no language files are
> included, causing the rebuild to fail.
>
> I discovered this with gettext and gtk+ this morning. Solved it by
> unsetting LINGUAS for the root user for rebuilding the sources.
It has struck me too, just today. Would it be nice to unset/play with
LINGUAS in specs for build time, for language-sensitive packages?
