From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Preparing for the libc/locale upgrade
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:32:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9mdz47r.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKrPhPP82B0X0pdkXvD4TAEQ7pdaqQ17AETmcR0HdqTAkYtMrg@mail.gmail.com> (Federico Beffa's message of "Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:17:46 +0200")
Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> writes:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> Consequences for Guix on foreign distros:
>>
>> • 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-provided
>> packages (setting LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale would break
>> all the distro-provided programs), or use exclusively Guix-provided
>> programs, or use the “C” 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?
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.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-29 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-28 9:17 Preparing for the libc/locale upgrade Federico Beffa
2015-09-28 20:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-30 12:35 ` Federico Beffa
2015-09-30 13:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-30 15:53 ` Federico Beffa
2015-10-01 21:58 ` [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-02 0:06 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-10-02 16:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-03 22:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-03 22:56 ` Daniel Pimentel
2015-10-04 8:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-04 17:04 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-10-05 14:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-04 8:32 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-10-04 8:39 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-10-04 12:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-04 16:56 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-10-05 14:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-05 15:38 ` Federico Beffa
2015-10-05 19:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-05 21:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-06 6:29 ` Federico Beffa
2015-10-01 21:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] gnu: glibc: Honor 'GUIX_LOCPATH' Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-01 21:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] gnu: glibc: Look for locale data in versioned sub-directories Ludovic Courtès
2015-10-01 7:02 ` Preparing for the libc/locale upgrade Konrad Hinsen
2015-09-29 14:32 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2015-09-29 16:12 ` Federico Beffa
2015-10-01 19:57 ` Leo Famulari
2015-10-01 20:36 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-09-24 19:25 Ludovic Courtès
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