Nmap Development: Re: man page translations

[Alexander Khodyrev <spxnezzar () gmail com>]

Could you share a link to the documentation on the creation of man-pages for
different languages, I would pereel man-pages into Russian.

Best regards,
Khodyrev "SpxnezzaR" Alexander


2009/11/6 David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>

> Hi,
>
> I took a shot at doing these TODO items:
>
> o We should package the rendered Nroff man page translations (e.g. all
>  16 languages) in the tarball to make it easier for distributors to
>  package them.  For example, see
>  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=358336.  Including
>  the translations would add 2.5MB to the (currently 28MB)
>  uncompressed tarball and about 800KB to the (currently 9MB) bz2
>  compressed tarball.
>
> o Once all the man page languages are in the Nmap tarball, we should
>  update our install system to install them in the appropriate place.
>  We'll want to integrate this with configure so users can decide which
>  languages they want.  David thinks the standard way is like
>  "--enable-nls=es,de,hr,..." or --disable-nls for English only.
>
> In doing this I tried to match standard behavior of other packages as
> much as possible, so I'm writing here to document what I understand that
> to be.
>
> The translated man pages are installed by default. They go under paths
> like this:
>
> /usr/share/man/de/man1/nmap.1
> /usr/share/man/es/man1/nmap.1
>
> At least on my system, this works to read the translations:
>
> LANG=es_ES man nmap
>
> I think that installing translations by default is standard behavior. I
> have a lot of /usr/share/man/<code> directories on my Debian system. To
> install no translated man pages, and only the English one, configure with
>
> ./configure --disable-nls
>
> I was wrong about the --enable-nls=... syntax. To install only a subset
> of the available languages, define the environment variable LINGUAS when
> installing. This matches the behavior for the installation of gettext
> catalogs.
>
> LINGUAS="de es" make install
>
> David Fifield
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