HI ... warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument -3

HI ... warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument -3

[john francis lee]

Hi again,

My debian jessie says ...

jfl@wsdeb:~$ ldd --version
ldd (Debian GLIBC 2.19-18+deb8u1) 2.19
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.

... all the documentation talks about 2.21 and 2.22. I guess debian
jessie is already an antique?

Really sorry to have cluttered up your list. So long.

Re: HI ... warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument -3

[Ricardo Wurmus]

john francis lee <jfmxl@posteo.de> writes:

> jfl@wsdeb:~$ ldd --version
> ldd (Debian GLIBC 2.19-18+deb8u1) 2.19
> Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
>
> ... all the documentation talks about 2.21 and 2.22. I guess debian
> jessie is already an antique?

I don’t think it matters much.  Guix doesn’t use the host system’s
glibc.  Guix programmes will only use the glibc in the store.  To make
locales work you’d have to install the “glibc-locales” (or
“glibc-utf8-locales”) package (as you tried according to your previous
message) and then set GUIX_LOCPATH to tell the Guix glibc where to find
the locale data.

Debian’s glibc will not be affected by this.

~~ Ricardo