[Bug manual/174] New: LOCPATH environment variable is undocumented

[Bug manual/174] New: LOCPATH environment variable is undocumented

[pere at hungry dot com]

The LOCPATH environment variable, used by at least the locale(1)
program, is undocumented in the manual.  I'm not sure
where it should be documented, but I did search through the manual
for it and found no references to it.

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           Summary: LOCPATH environment variable is undocumented
           Product: glibc
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P2
         Component: manual
        AssignedTo: roland at gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: pere at hungry dot com
                CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com


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[Bug manual/174] LOCPATH environment variable is undocumented

[decimal at us dot ibm dot com]

------- Additional Comments From decimal at us dot ibm dot com  2006-02-21 20:02 -------
This variable is used by setlocale() and newlocale(). Looks like only
setlocale() is documented in the glibc manual. setlocale() is documented in the
"How Programs Set the Locale" section.

We could say "The path used for finding locale data can be set using the
LOCPATH environment variable. The default path for finding
locale data is system specific.  It is computed from the value given
as the prefix while configuring the C library.  This value normally is
/usr or /.  For the former the complete path is: /usr/lib/locale"
That text is similar to what I have seen elsewhere in the manual. I'll attach a
patch to that effect.

The default value comes from _nl_default_locale_path which comes from LOCALEDIR
which is set in locale/Makefile from localedir which comes from 
libc_cv_localedir which is set to ${exec_prefix}/lib/locale on linux where
exec_prefix = /usr/lib/locale by default.

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[Bug manual/174] LOCPATH environment variable is undocumented

[decimal at us dot ibm dot com]

------- Additional Comments From decimal at us dot ibm dot com  2006-02-21 20:03 -------
Created an attachment (id=881)
 --> (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=881&action=view)
Patch corrsponding to bug comments.


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[Bug manual/174] LOCPATH environment variable is undocumented

[jsm28 at gcc dot gnu.org]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174

Joseph Myers <jsm28 at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Joseph Myers <jsm28 at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-02-17 22:20:08 UTC ---
Thanks for the patch, committed.

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[Bug manual/174] LOCPATH environment variable is undocumented

[carlos at systemhalted dot org]

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Carlos O'Donell <carlos at systemhalted dot org> changed:

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