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

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Chris Larson <kergoth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> If it wasn't for the forthcoming 1.3 release, I'd have included the
> proposed change to the default localedir to ${exec_prefix}/lib/locale
> with this patch.

Mark explained the change here so it is OK for OE internal. I hope
external toolchains
are also fine with it.