Self-contained executable for any Linux x86_64 distribution

Miika Turkia miika.turkia at gmail.com
Sun Mar 3 10:56:53 PST 2013


On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Lutz Vieweg <lvml at 5t9.de> wrote:
> On 03/03/2013 06:52 PM, Sergey Starosek wrote:
>>
>> Works for me on Gentoo box
>>
>> Portage 2.1.11.52 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-4.6.3,
>> glibc-2.15-r3, 3.6.11-gentoo x86_64)
>
>
> Thanks for testing!
>
>
>> There're several errors on the console:
>>
>> star at narwhal subsurface $ ../subsurface/start_scripts/subsurface
>>
>> (process:23902): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user
>> id (1000)
>
>
> Interesting, I wonder why glib tries to obtain data on some user at
> all - and also, whether this is a failure of the lookup or whether
> a user of that id really does not exist. Can you tell whether a user
> with user-id 1000 actually exists within your /etc/passwd file?
>
>
>> (process:23902): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
>>         Using the fallback 'C' locale.
>>
>> Seems no translations included (warning comes both for en_US.UTF-8 and
>> ru_RU.UTF-8)
>
>
> Never having used one of the translations myself I must admit that
> the completely "normal" subsurface (not the self-contained version)
> I have on my computer does not seem to react on setting LANG=...
> either - but without any error message.
>
> What is the "officially supported" method of choosing the language
> for within subsurface, anyway?
>
> I tried invoking
>   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 subsurface
> but as said, still got the english interface.

There is no instructions on selecting language on the user manual (at
least my grep didn't give any results). Following seems to give me
german:
LANGUAGE=de ./subsurface

Buttons and some titles come from the GUI language, though (still in
English for me).

miika


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