On +2019-10-24 13:49:56 -0700, Bengt Richter wrote:
> On +2019-10-24 13:34:29 +0200, Kai Mertens wrote:
>
> [...]
> >
> > When invoking guix package -I for example, I encountered an error like
> > guile: failed to install locale
> >
>
> I have encountered the same error. It seems to recur for me after major
> updates.
> So there seems to be something lurking to reawaken the real error message
> source.
> I collected some symptoms and posted them as bug#37900.
>
A recently committed fix enabled me to fix my problem with "guile: failed to
install locale"
that was triggered by any invocation of guix:
guix pull ## make sure the fix is in! ;-)
guix install avahi ## likely you won't need this first, but it stood in my way
per bug#37900
## (after the fix, I might not have needed it either for the
locale upgrade, idk).
guix install glibc-utf8-locales ## if your locale is within '("de_DE" "el_GR"
"en_US" "fr_FR" "tr_TR")
If you have an exotic locale outside of those, you may have to install the big
one:
guix install glibc-locales
A snip from guix edit glibc-utf8-locales:
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;; tests---e.g., in Guile's i18n tests.
'("de_DE" "el_GR" "en_US" "fr_FR" "tr_TR"))
#t))))
(native-inputs `(("glibc" ,glibc)
("gzip" ,gzip)))
(synopsis "Small sample of UTF-8 locales")
(description
"This package provides a small sample of UTF-8 locales mostly useful in
test environments.")
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HTH, in case your "guile: failed to install locale" hasn't gone away yet :)
--
Regards,
Bengt Richter
