disableing locale completely.

[Carlos O'Donell]

seema ravandale wrote:
> I am working on toolchain maintained for arm port. I am using option 
> disable-nls to disable language internationalization. so default locales 
> installed  will be "C" and "POSIX". To set up other locale, i use 
> localedef option.
> 
> As far my knowledge, disable-nls will disable functionality of gettext 
> utility.

Yes, I believe that's the case.

> With the libc installation, locale data too get installed, By locale 
> data, i meant local definitions file, charmaps and message formatter 
> file (.mo files).
> 
> On disabling language internationalization, why are the locale data 
> files still needed?

Probably because nobody tries it out. You can always remove the files by 
hand.

> Is there a way, or any option already available in libc not to get 
> locale data files installed?
> 
> Thanking you.

Alternatively you may wish to look at http://www.eglibc.org, which is 
libc but with configuration options. Take a look at the 
OPTIONS_EGLIBC_LOCALES feature which disables locale definitions.

Cheers,
Carlos.
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