How to install locales on Gentoo ?!

[Arkanjo]

Hello guys,

I've tried searching the forums about this problem, but nothing really worked. I compiled glibc with +nls but wen i do locales -a i get:

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nilo root # locale -a
C
POSIX

My guess is a need do rebuild the locales but how ?

This only happen on one of my boxes, cuz at first I compiled without the +nls but now that I need it i can't make it work by only recompile the glibc.

So with this problem i can't use the translation function on Horde.

Does anyone knows how to solve this pls

Tnx

[Deathwing00]

Moved from Installing Gentoo.

[Arkanjo]

bump

[Genone]

Now the weird thing is that I have USE="-nls" and I have a huge list of locales. You didn't run localpurge by any chance ?
The basic locale stuff is AFAIK part of glibc (= long compile).

[Arkanjo]

No i didn't use localpurge, I have this since I installed the server.
But to be real accurate, I installed the server with only the USE flags that where needed:

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USE="-* apache2 ncurses ssl crypt berkdb tcpd pam xml nls perl python"

nls I added wen I got the first problem on php if i remenber correctly.
Then wen I saw that horde translations didn't worked, I read the doc's on horde to check my locales.

For 2 days now i'm trying to install the locales, i recompiled glibc with +nls

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nilo root # etcat -u glibc
[ Colour Code : set unset ]
[ Legend   : (U) Col 1 - Current USE flags        ]
[          : (I) Col 2 - Installed With USE flags ]

 U I [ Found these USE variables in : sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r9 ]
 + + nls   : unknown
 - - pic   : Build position independent code. Needed for (prelink/hardened-gcc)
 - - build : !!internal use only!! DO NOT SET THIS FLAG YOURSELF!, used for creating build images and the first half of bootstrapping.
 - - nptl  : If you want the Native POSIX Threading Library built into glibc.

the thing is i notice on the compile the locales being installed, that's what it seams at least:

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 * Installing Locale data...
make: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.2-r9/work/glibc-2.3.2/buildhere'
make -r PARALLELMFLAGS="-j2" CVSOPTS="" -C .. objdir=`pwd` localedata/install-locales
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.2-r9/work/glibc-2.3.2'
make -j2 -C localedata install-locales
make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.2-r9/work/glibc-2.3.2/localedata'
.././scripts/mkinstalldirs /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.2-r9/image//usr/lib/locale
mkdir /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.2-r9/image/usr/lib/locale
aa_ER.UTF-8...aa_DJ.ISO-8859-1... done
aa_ER.UTF-8@saaho... done
aa_ET.UTF-8... done
af_ZA.ISO-8859-1... done
am_ET.UTF-8... done
an_ES.ISO-8859-15... done
[snip]

but with no success, should I try with the +build flag
how do i install the locales, or regenarate then

[taskara]

hope this helps (substitute for the language you want):

edit /etc/locales.build

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en_AU.UTF-8/UTF-8
en_AU/ISO-8859-1

and in your make.conf put

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 USE="... nls unicode"
LINGUAS="en_GB"
LANGUAGE="44"

and in your /etc/profile at the end put

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export LC_ALL=en_AU.UTF-8
export LANG=en_AU.UTF-8

and in /etc/portage/package.use

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sys-libs/glibc userlocales

re-build glibc with userlocales, and prob

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emerge --newuse -av world

and if you use kde

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emerge -av kde-i18n

build UTF8 support in your kernel