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

[Ludovic Courtès]

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:

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$ 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)
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Ludo'.