[OE-core] [PATCH] Add and use 'localedir' variable

[Chris Larson]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
> On 9/24/12 4:04 PM, Chris Larson wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Christopher Larson <kergoth at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: Christopher Larson <chris_larson at mentor.com>
>>>>
>>>> This avoids the hardcoding of ${libdir}/locale which is all over the
>>>> place,
>>>> and will facilitate use of ${exec_prefix}/lib/locale instead of
>>>> ${libdir}/locale.
>>>
>>>
>>> what is adavantage of letting use ${exec_prefix}/lib/locale ? Do you have
>>> a case
>>> where you share locale between multilibs ?
>>
>>
>> This is the case by default for all eglibc builds that set libdir to
>> the default. See https://gist.github.com/3756705 — there's another
>> block just like that for all the other 64 bit archs for eglibc. When
>> we pass —libdir=/usr/lib64, it skips this logic.
>>
>> So changing it would just bring us inline with the default eglibc
>> behavior. The binary locale files are, as far as I'm aware, a
>> relatively arch independent binary format. There's no point or benefit
>> to having lib32 vs lib64 copies, they'd just be duplicated content.
>
>
> They are endian and locale word size dependent.  (It just happens to be that
> all of our architectures use the unit32-aligned=4 structures.)  :)
>
> So they are sharable between ABIs on the same arch for sure.

Ah, thanks for the clarification.
-- 
Christopher Larson