Building Locales for HP-UX 11.0 and HP-UX 11i

HP-UX 11.0 and HP-UX 11i systems can have up to three different flavors of the same locale:

32-bit
64-bit
HP-UX 10.20 compatibility 32-bit

The following sections present build requirements, briefly describe each flavor, and give the locale building procedure. The locale zh_CN.utf8 is used as an example.

Requirements

Compiler

Building locales on HP-UX requires a C compiler named “HP C/ANSI C Developer's Bundle for HP-UX”. Run the swlist command to verify that this compiler installed. Normally, this package is NOT shipped with HP-UX systems.

Source Files

All needed files are normally shipped with the system to the following paths:

charmaps: /usr/lib/nls/loc/charmaps/utf8.cm
method files: /usr/lib/nls/loc/locales/univ.utf8.m
locale source: /usr/lib/nls/loc/src/zh_CN.utf8.src

Kernel Configuration (needed for UTF8 locales only)

Building Unicode/UTF8 locales requires that the following kernel parameters be increased from 67 MB to 100 MB:

MAXDSIZ
MAXTSIZ
SHMMAX

The Three Locale Flavors

Using the build syntax shown, locales are built in the local directory. After a locale is built, copy it to the path shown.

32-bit Locales

Located at /usr/lib/nls/loc/locales.2/zh_CN.utf8
Used by 32-bit HP-UX 11.0 and HP-UX 11i applications

To build, run the following command on a 32-bit machine:

localedef -C '+ESlit' -Q -L -x -Pcnf utf8.cm -m univ.utf8.m -i \
  zh_CN.utf8.src zh_CN.utf8 > zh_CN.out 2> zh_CN.err

64-bit Locales

This flavor is found on 64-bit systems only.
Located at /usr/lib/nls/loc/pa20_64/locales.2/zh_CN.utf8
Used by 64-bit HP-UX 11.0 and HP-UX 11i applications.
To build, run the following command on a 64-bit machine. This command produces 32- and 64-bit locales. The 64-bit locale is created under the ./pa20_64 directory.
localedef -C '+ESlit' -Q -L -x -Pcnf utf8.cm -m univ.utf8.m -i \ zh_CN.utf8.src zh_CN.utf8 > zh_CN.out 2> zh_CN.err

Compatibility 32-bit locales

Located at /usr/lib/nls/loc/locales.1/zh_CN.utf8.
Used by HP-UX 10.20 applications.

To build, run the following command on a 10.20 machine, and then copy the locale binary to the 11.0 or 11i system:

localedef -C '+ESlit' -Q -L -x -Pcnf utf8.cm -m univ.utf8.m -i \
  zh_CN.utf8.src zh_CN.utf8 > zh_CN.out 2> zh_CN.err

Alternatives

There are options to build locales and get them installed immediately in the default locations. Refer to the localedef manpage for more information.

Locales under /usr/lib/nls/loc/locales.1 can be copied from a 10.20 machine.