Re: Setting LOCALEDIR in libgphoto2

Jim Easterbrook <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Apr 2022 16:57:27 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.gphoto.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 21/04/2022 16:28, Dan Fandrich wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 04:07:21PM +0100, Jim Easterbrook wrote:
>> I assume I can't persuade you to change the libgphoto2 API by adding an
>> initialisation function. Is there any chance of making LOCALEDIR settable
>> with an environment variable, like CAMLIBS and IOLIBS are?
> 
> In what situation would you need the localedir changed after the library has
> been compiled?

When distributing a python package that includes the gphoto2 libraries. 
Python packages are often installed without root privileges and in a 
user defined directory.
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Jim Easterbrook                 <http://www.jim-easterbrook.me.uk/>