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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Subject: Re: Locale of build environments
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 18:45:22 -0500
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:

> Commit 5335c56 adds an =E2=80=98install-locale=E2=80=99 phase to gnu-buil=
d-system and
> the next one adds glibc-utf8-locale to the implicit inputs.
>
> During bootstrap, locales aren=E2=80=99t available so we=E2=80=99re still=
 running on the
> C locale, which is fine in practice because we only get to deal with
> ASCII file names at that point and do not need UTF-8 for tests or
> anything.
>
> Commit 9cca706 adjust patch-and-repack to use UTF-8 as well when
> possible=E2=80=93i.e., not during bootstrap.

Thanks!

However, there's a missing piece: I think we should set LANG to the
chosen locale, otherwise the top-level guile builder will be the only
process that uses UTF-8.  What do you think?

> The remain thing that needs to be done is =E2=80=98graft-derivation=E2=80=
=99.

Okay, I'll work on it.  I also want to optimize grafting.

> Note to Mark: I didn=E2=80=99t use the #:env-vars approach we discussed o=
n IRC,
> where we=E2=80=99d pass GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE=3D1 and LOCPATH=3D... direct=
ly because
> that was trickier to do and didn=E2=80=99t add anything.

Okay, makes sense.

    Thanks!
      Mark