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Re: [v3] update docs, tweaks
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- To: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 16:00:31 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [v3] update docs, tweaks
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> ! <p>Finally, a few system-specific requirements:
> <dl>
> ! <dt> linux
>
> + <dd>If you are using gcc 3.1 or later on linux, and are using
> + the gnu locale model (enabled by default for sufficient
> + versions of glibc), the following locales are used and tested
> + in the libstdc++ testsuites: en_HK, en_US, fr_FR, fr_FR@euro,
> + de_DE, de_DE@euro, ja_JP.eucjp, and it_IT. Failure to have the
> + underlying "C" library locale information installed will mean
> + that C++ named locales for the above regions will not work:
> + because of this, the libstdc++ testsuite will not pass the
> + named locale tests. If this isn't an issue, don't worry about
> + it. If named locales are needed, the underlying locale
> + information must be installed. Note that rebuilding libstdc++
> + after locales are installed is not necessary.
I believe we're missing closing </dt>s and </dd>s here...
> + <p> To install
> + support for locales, do only one of the following: </p>
> + <p>
> + <li> install all locales
> + <p> <code> export LC_ALL=C </code> </p>
> + <p> <code> rpm -e glibc-common --nodeps </code> </p>
> + <p> <code> rpm -i --define "_install_langs all"
> + glibc-common-2.2.5-34.i386.rpm </code> </p>
> + <li> install just the necessary locales
> + <p> <code> localedef -i de_DE -f ISO-8859-1 de_DE </code> </p>
> + </p>
> </dl>
...and </li> here (assuming that also this documentation is ment to
be standard XHTML, of course).
HTH,
Gerald
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Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/