Using %{find-lang} question

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 14:10 +0000, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I mostly have a number of Mono packages ready for FE submission on
> Friday and the final one has a pile of language files.
> 
> Paul Howarth says I can find the languages using %{find-lang} but the
> available docs on it are somewhat short.

find_lang is just a macro, you to invoke a script:
# rpm -q --showrc | grep find_lang
-14: find_lang  /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/find-lang.sh %{buildroot}

> I have in my %install the line
> 
> %{find-lang} %{name}-%{version}
> 
> but this just throws back with fg - no job control.
> 
> How do I use find-lang and then what needs to be put in the %files area?

Check the source:
/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/find-lang.sh

It's a rather trivial wrapper around find.

Ralf