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Language switch for ./configure

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Language switch for ./configure John Culleton 25 Aug 22:30
  Language switch for ./configure Joao S. O. Bueno 26 Aug 05:44
   Language switch for ./configure Sven Neumann 26 Aug 10:15
John Culleton
2008-08-25 22:30:42 UTC (over 16 years ago)

Language switch for ./configure

I would guess that 95% of Gimp users are effectively monoglots. They only use Gimp with reference to a single language. That said, it would speed up configure and compile time if there was a switch that specified the language to be used at that site. The compile/install time and disk space needed for the many alternatives could be eliminated.

Just my thought for today.

Joao S. O. Bueno
2008-08-26 05:44:16 UTC (over 16 years ago)

Language switch for ./configure

On Monday 25 August 2008, John Culleton wrote:

I would guess that 95% of Gimp users are effectively monoglots. They only use Gimp with reference to a single language. That said, it would speed up configure and compile time if there was a switch that specified the language to be used at that site. The compile/install time and disk space needed for the many alternatives could be eliminated.

Just my thought for today.

Yes, but 98% of them, like - peple who download gimp for windows, or Linux distribution users, fetch GIMP from a unified binary source (either the gimp-windows binaries, or linux distribution binaries) , and these builds must be multilingual.

Your change would "benefit" the 2% whou buld gimp from source,a nd even that is dobutfull - I myself use it alternatibvely in English and Portuguese.

So... it is actually easier if you simply erase the .mo s you don? want at the end of the make step.

js ->

Sven Neumann
2008-08-26 10:15:22 UTC (over 16 years ago)

Language switch for ./configure

Hi,

On Monday 25 August 2008, John Culleton wrote:

I would guess that 95% of Gimp users are effectively monoglots. They only use Gimp with reference to a single language. That said, it would speed up configure and compile time if there was a switch that specified the language to be used at that site. The compile/install time and disk space needed for the many alternatives could be eliminated.

If I remember correctly, the common way to do this is to set the LINGUAS environment variable at build time:

A way to save space on unneeded message translations without any negative effects upon other NLS aspects is to set the LINGUAS variable during the build. The contents of this variable should be a space-separated list of two-letter codes of languages, translations to which should be installed. E.g., to install only Italian and Spanish translations:

export LINGUAS="it es"

Programs compiled in such a way are fully usable in other locales, and work correctly with user documents written in other languages. Just messages from a program itself will be in English.

To install no translations, set LINGUAS to the empty value:

export LINGUAS=

If the LINGUAS variable isn't exported, all available translations are installed.

Should work in GIMP. If it doesn't work, then you are free to fix it and send us a patch.

Sven