Bug 79605

Summary: webkit-gtk does not respect LINGUAS
Product: WebKit Reporter: Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino>
Component: WebKitGTKAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal CC: gnome, mrobinson, webkit.review.bot
Priority: P2    
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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patch to respect LINGUAS
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patch to respect LINGUAS (with changelogs) none

Description Alexandre Rostovtsev 2012-02-26 08:00:37 PST
Created attachment 128916 [details]
patch to respect LINGUAS

It is generally expected that modern linux packages honor the LINGUAS environment variable to limit the set of translations that get built. For example, if LINGUAS="en ru de", then at most only the Englush, Russian, and German translations of messages etc. would be built; an empty or undefined LINGUAS is typically interpreted as "all available translations".

Packages that use a copy of intltool's Makefile.in.in get this capability for free (see http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~intltool/intltool/trunk/view/head:/Makefile.in.in). Since webkit-gtk uses a rather non-standard build system, a patch is needed.

Note that in the attached patch, PO_LINGUAS, USER_LINGUAS, and USE_LINGUAS are added to the root GNUmakefile.am to ensure that they are defined before MOFILES in the root GNUmakefile due to the way that automake interprets "+=".
Comment 1 Martin Robinson 2012-02-27 15:04:41 PST
There's already an effort to make the library intltool compliant: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45321

Would that fix the issue as well? I'm not opposed to this patch, but could you make it against the SVN checkout and include a changelog? See http://www.webkit.org/coding/contributing.html
Comment 2 Alexandre Rostovtsev 2012-02-27 22:05:59 PST
Created attachment 129187 [details]
patch to respect LINGUAS (with changelogs)

(In reply to comment #1)
> There's already an effort to make the library intltool compliant: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45321
> 
> Would that fix the issue as well?

Yes; if webkit-gtk used intltool's Makefile.in.in, then it would treat LINGUAS like all other intltool-using projects, and my patch would not be needed.

> I'm not opposed to this patch, but could you make it against the SVN checkout and include a changelog? See http://www.webkit.org/coding/contributing.html

Sure, patch with changelogs attached.
Comment 3 WebKit Review Bot 2012-03-02 15:10:48 PST
Comment on attachment 129187 [details]
patch to respect LINGUAS (with changelogs)

Clearing flags on attachment: 129187

Committed r109620: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109620>
Comment 4 WebKit Review Bot 2012-03-02 15:10:55 PST
All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.