Re: Changing the locale directory

[Bruno Haible]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

> I have a program (www.lyx.org) in which I would like to change the
> locale directory twice: bindtextdomain is called first at main() time
> to set the locale directory to its hardcoded value; it is invoked
> again later once the directory from which is running has been
> investigated.

Should work. bindtextdomain() supports multiple calls for the same domain.

> (the idea is to allow binary distributions to be relocatable)

gettext already has an option --enable-relocatable to produce relocatable
binary distributions. You might want to look how it works. The files are:
  config/install-reloc
  config/reloc-ldflags
  gettext-tools/m4/relocatable.m4
  gettext-tools/lib/relocatable.c
  gettext-tools/lib/progreloc.c
  gettext-tools/lib/relocwrapper.c
  gettext-tools/lib/relocatable.h
  gettext-tools/lib/Makefile.am
  gettext-tools/src/Makefile.am

Bruno