[Nix-dev] Re: Boost and Locale issues

[roconnor at theorem.ca]

I've applied the patch given in that boost ticket and now bitcoin runs 
without setting any environment variables.

Shall I go ahead and commit this update to the boost package?

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Rob Vermaas wrote:

> Sounds like a known bug in boost: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4688
> 
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 08:30, Ambrus Kaposi <kaposi.ambrus at gmail.com> wrote:
>       > No, locale::facet is general C++, not boost-specific. AFAIR, last time I had
>       > such problem switching to stdenv-updates helped but I'm not sure.
> 
> I have the same problem with encfs wich also uses boost.
> stdenv-updates didn't help:
> 
> /etc/nixos/nixpkgs/pkgs/tools/filesystems/encfs/default.nix
> 
> $ encfs
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
>  what():  locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
> Aborted
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