Re: Removing unwanted internationalization info

[danilo gnome org (Danilo Åegan)]

Hi Mark, Christian,

Today at 21:40, Christian Rose wrote:

> tis 2004-06-15 klockan 10.09 skrev Mark Phalan:
>> I'm trying to squeeze gnome into as small a space as possible and was
>> wondering if there is an easy way to remove all the unwanted locale info
>> (I just need us english for the moment) which is included in the
>> /etc/gconf/ files. I suppose I could write something to strip out all
>> the info I don't need based on locale name but it would make my life
>> easier if there was some existing tool.
>> Maybe this can be done at compile/install time?
>
> Yes, to disable translations you can modify the ALL_LINGUAS line of
> configure.in to only include the translations you want, before
> compiling. That's the easiest way to disable translations.

Not even that would help, since intltool works with all the *.po files
it can find in a po directory.  That's bad, so I invite anyone to work
on a patch ;)

If you really need to save space, here's what I would do:
  export LINGUAS="sr" # just Serbian
  for i in package/po/*.po; do \
      if [ "x$i" != "xpackage/po/sr.po" ]; then
         mv $i $i.bah # hey, lets back it up ;)
      fi
  done
  (cd package && ./configure && make && make install)

Basically, you're removing all the unneeded PO files, and modifying
ALL_LINGUAS with LINGUAS environment variable (no need to edit
configure.in or configure.ac).

Of course, recompiling the entire Gnome stack is necessary here,
following these directions (if for instance you use jhbuild, just CVS
update everything first, remove all the po files with 
"rm jhbuildroot/*/po*/*.po", set LINGUAS="", and compile it).

Cheers,
Danilo