Firefox's Brazilian Portuguese Language Pack has not yet been ported to Firefox 4 so I got Mozilla's Firefox binary in my language, used Pat's Slackbuild for 13.1 and replaced Slack's Firefox with it. I tried compiling it localized from source using the Slackbuild in /source, but all I found to add to the configure options was a "--with-l10n-base=directory" option, which I made point to the pt-BR locale I'd downloaded from Mozilla, but it still compiled in en-US.

My question is: am I missing out on something like the cairo-tee option? If I am, has anyone had success in building a localized version of Firefox around here? How?

Hello from Ireland.

Be aware that deep in the bowels of /etc, Slackware is set up as en_US. This might trick automagic things like configure scripts into thinking you are using en_US.

I ran into this over here (wanting en_IE). I forget where it is. grep in profile.d/ and /etc/rc.d. Sorry can't be more help.

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Like business_kid said, you probably need to set up your locale, for that you should run "locale -a" to see what locales are available, and then edit your "/etc/profile.d/lang.sh" and "/etc/profile.d/lang.csh" there are plenty explanations in these files, so you should be OK in there. I just do not remember how to apply those locales without system reboot

Anyways, after you have applied locale settings to your system, you can run Slackbuild for Firefox again, and that should result in localized version. At least i think so.

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Thank you business_kid and Totoro-kun for your help. I had already set /etc/profile.d/lang.sh as pt_BR-UTF-8. I did the same to lang.csh. BTW, what's the difference between them? Is the latter for the c shell or am I way off here? My Slack was already localized, CUPS management page was in Portuguese as were all the X apps and bash understood well the alphabet. I'll try again now with lang.csh set as pt_BR as well.

If that doesn't work, does anyone have any suggestions? I'll post back tomorrow morning.

Success!!!

I was able to build Firefox in pt-BR this afternoon. I had a rough couple of weeks so I couldn't try it before. This is how I did it:

My locale was already set in /etc/profile.d/lang.sh. I don't use csh or tcsh, but I set my locale in lang.csh as well. That didn't work. Firefox was still built in English. Then I googled some more and saw that the language that gets built is not a configure option. (configure may have an option for that, but I couldn't find any references to that). What you have to do is two things:

1- Download the language source. What you can do by running replacing pt-BR with your language.

After that, you open Pat's Slackbuild and add the option Its full path was /home/pt-BR, but you have to use the directory above it or the compile will fail.

2- Find the line that says and, after that, you add Evidently, replacing pt-BR with your language.

Then you run the script. I am now very proudly running Firefox in Brazilian Portuguese.

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