Linux standalone: Include locale files in the bundle, and generate locale definition files for the locales in use when starting runshell.

Currently only done for utf-8 locales because the charset can easily be
told for those. Other locales don't include the charset in their name.

The locale definition is generated under git-annex.linux/locales.
So, this only works if the user can write there.

If locale generation fails for any reason, it's silently skipped.

The git-annex-standalone.deb installs the bundle under /usr, so this locale
generation won't work for non-root users.

Build/BundledPrograms.hs

@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ preferredBundledPrograms = catMaybes
 	-- used to unpack the tarball when upgrading
 	, Just "gunzip"
 	, Just "tar"
+	-- used by runshell to generate locales
+	, Just "localedef"
 #endif
 	-- nice, ionice, and nocache are not included in the bundle;
 	-- we rely on the system's own version, which may better match

CHANGELOG

@@ -14,12 +14,9 @@ git-annex (6.20160924) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     external special remotes, because running multiple git-annex commands
     at the same time could already start multiple processes for the same
     external special remotes.
-  * Linux standalone: Add back the LOCPATH=/dev/null hack to avoid
+  * Linux standalone: Include locale files in the bundle, and generate
-    the system locale-archive being read. Version mismatches between the
+    locale definition files for the locales in use when starting runshell.
-    system locale-archive and the glibc in the bundle have been observed
+    (Currently only done for utf-8 locales.)
-    to cause git crashes. Unfortunately, this causes locales to not be
-    used in the linux standalone bundle, reverting back to pre-6.20160419
-    behavior.
 
  -- Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>  Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:46:19 -0400
 

Makefile

@@ -143,6 +143,8 @@ linuxstandalone-nobuild: Build/Standalone Build/LinuxMkLibs
 	install -d "$(LINUXSTANDALONE_DEST)/templates"
 	install -d "$(LINUXSTANDALONE_DEST)/magic"
 	cp /usr/share/file/magic.mgc "$(LINUXSTANDALONE_DEST)/magic"
+	install -d "$(LINUXSTANDALONE_DEST)/i18n"
+	cp /usr/share/i18n -a "$(LINUXSTANDALONE_DEST)/i18n"
 	
 	./Build/LinuxMkLibs "$(LINUXSTANDALONE_DEST)"
 	

standalone/linux/skel/runshell

@@ -100,11 +100,6 @@ export ORIG_GCONV_PATH
 GCONV_PATH="$base/$(cat "$base/gconvdir")"
 export GCONV_PATH
 
-ORIG_LOCPATH="$LOCPATH"
-export ORIG_LOCPATH
-LOCPATH=/dev/null
-export LOCPATH
-
 ORIG_GIT_EXEC_PATH="$GIT_EXEC_PATH"
 export ORIG_GIT_EXEC_PATH
 GIT_EXEC_PATH="$base/git-core"
@@ -120,6 +115,39 @@ export ORIG_MANPATH
 MANPATH="$base/usr/share/man:$MANPATH"
 export MANPATH
 
+# Avoid using system locales, which may interact badly with bundled libc.
+ORIG_LOCPATH="$LOCPATH"
+export ORIG_LOCPATH
+LOCPATH="$base/locales"
+export LOCPATH
+
+# Generate locale definition files for the locales in use,
+# using the localedef and locale files from the bundle.
+# Currently only utf-8 locales are handled.
+lastlocaleenv=""
+for localeenv in "$LANG" "$LANGUAGE" "$LC_CTYPE" "$LC_NUMERIC" "$LC_TIME" \
+		"$LC_COLLATE" "$LC_MONETARY" "$LC_MESSAGES" "$LC_PAPER" \
+		"$LC_NAME" "$LC_ADDRESS" "$LC_TELEPHONE" "$LC_MEASUREMENT" \
+		"$LC_IDENTIFICATION" "$LC_ALL"; do
+	if [ "$localeenv" != "$lastlocaleenv" ]; then
+		lastlocaleenv="$localeenv"
+		if [ ! -d "$base/locales/$localeenv" ]; then
+			if [ "${localeenv##[!.]*.}" = "utf8" ]; then
+				(
+					rm -rf "$base/locales/$localeenv.new.$$" &&
+					mkdir -p "$base/locales/$localeenv.new.$$" &&
+					# cd to $base since localedef reads files from pwd
+					cd "$base" &&
+					# Run localedef using the bundled i18n files;
+					# use LANG=C to avoid it reading the system locale archive.
+					I18NPATH="$base/i18n" LANG=C localedef -i "${localeenv%%.*}" -c -f UTF-8 "$base/locales/$localeenv.new.$$" &&
+					mv "$base/locales/$localeenv.new.$$" "$base/locales/$localeenv"
+				) >/dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
+			fi
+		fi
+	fi
+done
+
 # Indicate which variables were exported above and should be cleaned
 # when running non-bundled programs.
 GIT_ANNEX_STANDLONE_ENV="PATH GCONV_PATH GIT_EXEC_PATH GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR MANPATH LOCPATH"