Re: How do I change LOCALEDIR?

[Marnen Laibow-Koser]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 12:36 PM Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
[...]

> > I’d really rather not patch the code if I don’t have to, and three
> > attempts to do anything seems smelly to me (it suggests that the
> > logic flow is in the wrong order),
>
> I don't think that the logic flow is wrong.  The idea is to have
> translated error and warning messages as soon as possible.  At the
> very beginning, lilypond only knows about the compile-time LOCALEDIR
> location.  Later on it checks the LILYPOND_LOCALEDIR environment
> variable, and finally the relocated version of LILYPOND_LOCALEDIR.


Why does it need to check the LILYPOND_LOCALEDIR environment variable at
all if the relocated parameter is present?  It seems to me that it should
only ever need to look at one of those, but perhaps I’m not understanding
something.

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