[Nix-dev] Re: perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

[Tony White]

2009/5/31 Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org>:
> Lluís Batlle <viriketo at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> stracing shows that the 'locale' commandline isn't caring on
>> LOCALE_ARCHIVE.
>
> Hmm, it apparently *does* honor that variable, and it does open the
> 77 MiB locale archive, too:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ locale --version
> locale (GNU libc) 2.9
> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> Written by Ulrich Drepper.
>
> $ strace -f -o ,,s locale -a
> C
> POSIX
>
> $ grep locale-archive ,,s
> 6108  open("/var/run/current-system/sw/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
> 6108  open("/nix/store/v52qk62nsj4fx9m79755caijcgpndclc-glibc-2.9/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
> $ LOCALE_ARCHIVE=/foo/bar strace -f -o ,,s locale -a
> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
> C
> POSIX
>
> $ grep /foo/bar ,,s
> 6129  open("/foo/bar", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Ludo'.
>
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Hi all,
So this is broken for now?
I've added the :

environment = {
   extraPackages = [ pkgs.glibcLocales ];
 }

but bashrc is in the store, so adding the variable to that using the expression?
If it's the system wide locales, that's kind of important that it
works, isn't it?

Thanks,
Tony