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To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
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Just want to confirm I'm doing your workaround properly... like this?
$ ln -s gnu/store/...-glibc-utf8-locales-2.22/lib/locale
/run/current-system/locale
$ echo $LOCPATH

The previous line is blank, showing that $LOCPATH is unset.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015, at 10:32, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> writes:
>=20
> > ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> Consequences for Guix on foreign distros:
> >>
> >>   =E2=80=A2 If the host distro provides binaries that use libc < 2.22 =
and you
> >>     use a mixture of Guix-provided and distro-provided programs, this =
is
> >>     pretty bad.
> >>
> >>     Solution: unset LOCPATH and say goodbye to locales for Guix-provid=
ed
> >>     packages (setting LOCPATH=3D$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale would b=
reak
> >>     all the distro-provided programs), or use exclusively Guix-provided
> >>     programs, or use the =E2=80=9CC=E2=80=9D locale.
> >
> > Does this means that Guix on other distributions is no longer of
> > interest to the Guix project and it is essentially unsupported?
> >
> > Or is this a transitory situation and an acceptable solution is being
> > worked on?
>=20
> I think I know a workaround: leave LOCPATH unset, and make
> /run/current-system/locale a symlink to freshly generated locales for
> glibc 2.22.  Guix-compiled software is configured to look for locales
> there if LOCPATH is unset.
>=20
>      Mark
>=20