Anonymous access to the Localization CVSROOT
Anonymous access is now available for the localization cvs repository, thanks to the hard work of Mike Shaver and Dave Miller. Thank you! You can now check out and build any Firefox localization with the following procedure:
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cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co -r AVIARY_1_0_20040515_BRANCH mozilla/client.mk
- Create a file mozilla/.mozconfig with at least the following contents:
. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig
mk_add_options MOZ_CO_LOCALES=ab-CD you can also specify 'all'
ac_add_options ----enable-ui-locale=ab-CD cd mozilla;
make -f client.mk
To look at the available locales and whether they are building correctly, see the temporary tinderbox.
October 2nd, 2004 at 8:05 am
Could you please provide a checkout command for those who don’t build Firefox themselves but only need the locales?
October 2nd, 2004 at 1:51 pm
Thank your for this update!
October 6th, 2004 at 8:55 am
Hi,
It looks like there isn’t a Japanese locale yet? I’d be happy to work on the localization for that. What is entailed in doing that?
October 12th, 2004 at 8:23 am
I think this information is missing, and the improperly closed bug 245831 about expecting info about localize firefox was provided (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245831) was created for having this kind of info available in mozilla.org.
This really helps to have more info, but unless all the info for a translator can perform for his language ALL the steps performed in mozilla.org to build en-US builds, the problem will not be completely solved.
October 13th, 2004 at 3:45 am
Thanks for the info. I am grabbing localizations in order to have a french version of my nightly homemade build. It will be strange to have firefox in french after using it everyday in english.
Thanks also for this great work :)
October 13th, 2004 at 6:17 am
Just a little comment to say that installation of a localized version is completely problem free. It is just surprising not to have firefox in english. Thanks a lot :)
October 23rd, 2004 at 5:38 am
Is it possible to build one Firefox with several languages integrated, so you can choose after installation via a command line option? How would you have to do this?
bsmedberg says: There are not build options to do this automatically. However, it might be possible by manually calling “make -C browser/locales AB_CD=a-LANG” multiple times. It is also possible by installing language packs as extensions. You can start with the command-line argument -ui-locale ab-CD, or you can set the pref intl.locale.matchOS to “true”.