disable nls Internationalization

na5m · 08-08-2010, 09:21 PM

What is the effect of using --disable-nls on all LFS packages that allow it?
I only need support for American English. I hope it doesn't break LFS.

druuna · 08-09-2010, 01:24 PM

Hi,

I would not use that option. It seems that more and more programs will fail to build when you use --disable-nls.

Have a look at this chapter (especially the last part of 6.9.1.): 6.9. Glibc-2.11.1
It says you do not have to install any locales, but it does provide the bare minimum that seems to be needed (which I would build!).

If you use the bare minumum that is mentioned in chapter 6.9 and skip chapters like this one (anything locales related, just an example): 7.5. Configuring the Linux Console, you will end up with an American English POSIX system (which is English). Something like this:

Quote:

$ locale
LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

Hope this helps.