On 4 February 2010 18:34, Siegfried Gevatter <rai...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > 2010/2/4 Patric Mueller <bh...@gmx.net>: >> I downloaded and run the debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso and then >> [...] >> Both versions just worked. > > I guess that ISO comes with the locales for English then. > > (By the way, if you want a build environment more like that of the > buildds, you can use eg. pbuilder. If you decide to try it out, I > recommend using the pbuilder-dist wrapper script, which is available > in package ubuntu-dev-tools) > >> But the building of package worked? And compiling it manually with >> --with-unicode-locale=en_US.utf8 produced a working binary? That >> sounds strange. > > Yeah. Note however that the package was build in a chroot with > locales-all installed, but I tried it on my local system. > >> What does 'locale -a' and 'fakeroot locale -a' show? > > On my local system: > C > ca_ES.utf8 > POSIX > > Inside the chroot, without installing locales-all: > C > POSIX > > Inside the chroot, after installing locales-all (like it has when it's > building the package when locales-all is set as a build-dependency): > C > POSIX > aa_DJ > aa_DJ.iso88591 > aa_DJ.utf8 > [... almost enough lines to crash Iceweasel when copy-pasting more...] > zu_ZA > zu_ZA.iso88591 > zu_ZA.utf8 > >> If only --enable-multibyte is specified, the configure script should >> select a utf8 locale by itself. > > Yep, it picks up a random one though, which is why I set it to English > explicitly.
If the random one is aa_DJ.utf8 then most people won't have that. Note also that the buildd has zu_ZA.utf8 while what I get is en_US.UTF-8 (or zu_ZA.UTF-8 should I build it). So you will probably want locales-all for build as there is no other way to ensure that there is at least one UTF-8 locale. It would be also reasonable to move the check for random (preferably the one currently in use) UTF-8 locale from build time to run time. However, this would need patching and I did not get around to looking at what vilistextum does and how ugly it would be to make that a run time check instead of a build time check. Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
