This patch allows us to use glibc's build system to build locales in a package separate from glibc. 1. Use 'localedef' from $PATH since we are not rebuilding it. 2. Use '--no-archive' to avoid building the big locale archive, and because the already-built 'localedef' would want to write it to '/run/current-system/locale', which is not possible. 3. Pass $(inst_complocaledir)/$$locale to install files in the right place, and because otherwise, 'localedef' fails with: "cannot write output files to `(null)'". diff -ru glibc-2.29-old/localedata/Makefile glibc-2.29-new/localedata/Makefile --- glibc-2.29-old/localedata/Makefile 2019-01-31 11:45:36.000000000 -0500 +++ glibc-2.29-new/localedata/Makefile 2019-07-03 22:48:35.662015071 -0400 @@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ # Sometimes the whole collection of locale files should be installed. LOCALEDEF=I18NPATH=. GCONV_PATH=$(common-objpfx)iconvdata LC_ALL=C \ -$(rtld-prefix) $(common-objpfx)locale/localedef + localedef --no-archive install-locales: install-locale-archive # Create and install the locale-archive file. @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ input=`echo $$locale | sed 's/\([^.]*\)[^@]*\(.*\)/\1\2/'`; \ $(LOCALEDEF) $$flags --alias-file=../intl/locale.alias \ -i locales/$$input -f charmaps/$$charset \ - $(addprefix --prefix=,$(install_root)) $$locale \ + $(addprefix --prefix=,$(install_root)) $(inst_complocaledir)/$$locale \ && echo ' done'; endef