On Friday 11 July 2003 03:16, Sam Halliday wrote:
> Marc Wilson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 05:27:56PM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote:
> > > i have LANG=en and LC_ALL=POSIX
> >
> > Well, then the LANG setting is meaningless and POSIX rules all.
> > Unless you have a *very* good reason to use LC_ALL, *never* use it.
> > It overrides EVERYTHING.
>
> i dont think it does
>

yes, it does.  Marc is right here.  unset the LC_* and the build should start 
working.

And if you set LC_ALL, there is no need to set any of the other LC_?? items.

>
> and setting LC_ALL to POSIX is about the most sane thing you can do;
> otherwise what is everything set to? if something breaks under POSIX,
> then its most likely gonna break under a whole lot of other things.
>

POSIX === C locale.  You are right, almost all software works there.  However 
you are compiling a program with NLS support.  Under the C locale it does not 
know anything about other languages, different bits, etc.  So the compilation 
gets confused.


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