Re: What can we do with the drunken libc?

[Dan Nelson <dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the last episode (Dec 19), DervishD said:
>     Hi all :))
> 
>     Excuse the subject, it's just that I'm starting to be pissed off
> by GNUisms... Let's go to the matter. In the GNU libc 'ldd' script,
> we can see something like:
> 
>     echo $"Usage: ldd [OPTION]... FILE..."
> 
>     Obviously, zsh prints '$Usage: ....', but bash prints just
> 'Usage: ...'. Why? Well, because as the bash documentation says, a
> doubled quoted string preceeded by a dollar sign, will cause the
> string to be translated according to the current locale. There are a
> couple of shell variables involved, too, TEXTDOMAIN and TEXTDOMAINDIR.

Debian simply changes the bang path for ldd to /bin/bash, since it uses
/bin/dash (an ash clone) for /bin/sh.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx