On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Josh  Kuperman wrote:

> When I start up X and some other apps I get messages about no locale.
> Because of this I get the feeling that some of the Apps ported to fink,
> really depend on having the developers tools installed but this is not
> reflected in any dependency. 

I get locale warnings *all the damn time*. I'm guessing that OSX has a
very nice, pervasive internationalization & localication framework, but
the bugs don't all seem to be worked out yet. That or the hooks for
getting BSDish stuff to work with the framework hasn't been fleshed out
yet. Perl -- and things written in Perl -- seem to be particularly eager
to throw a hissy fit over this little detail. 

In any event, the problem seems to be Mostly Harmless, and I'm not sure
that it has anything to do with the presence or absence of the devtools
kit. You're getting errors without it, I get errors with it, "let's call
the whole thing off". </tomato>

A band aid remedy is to make sure that the right environment variables are
getting set to the correct things. Supposedly you can appease OSX by
creating a ~/.MacOSX/ directory, and putting an 'environment.plist' XML
descriptor file in there setting these variables for you. I say supposedly
because it doesn't work reliably for me in Aqua, and it seems to be
ignored completely in X11. Setting them in your home dotfiles is about as
reliable for me so far. It's very annoying to pin down... :/


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Chris Devers                                [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"More war soon. You know how it is."    -- mnftiu.cc


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