[v3] update docs, tweaks

[Gerald Pfeifer]

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
-- 
Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/