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From: Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2021 17:24:24
Message-Id: 4324012.LvFx2qVVIh@dell_xps
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed by Dr Rainer Woitok
1 On Sunday, 13 June 2021 18:10:46 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
2 > Michael,
3 >
4 > On Sunday, 2021-06-13 16:16:37 +0100, you wrote:
5 > > ...
6 > > $ grep -i en_gb /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
7 > > en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
8 > > en_GB ISO-8859-1
9 >
10 > Same here.
11
12 It would/should be the same with mine. Have you made sure:
13
14 en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8
15
16 is in your /etc/locale.gen and have you run locale-gen thereafter?
17
18 > > ...
19 > > $ eselect locale list
20 > >
21 > > Available targets for the LANG variable:
22 > > [1] C
23 > > [2] C.utf8
24 > > [3] POSIX
25 > >
26 > > [snip ... ]
27 > >
28 > > [7] en_GB
29 > > [8] en_GB.iso88591
30 > > [9] en_GB.utf8
31 > > [10] en_US
32 > > [11] en_US.iso88591
33 > > [12] en_US.utf8
34 > > [13] en_GB.UTF-8 *
35 > > [ ] (free form)
36 >
37 > Now it's becoming really mysterious, right from the local horse's mouth:
38 >
39 > $ eselect locale list
40 > Available targets for the LANG variable:
41 > [1] C
42 > [2] C.utf8
43 > [3] POSIX
44 > [4] en_GB.utf8 *
45 > [ ] (free form)
46 >
47 > So allegedly my only "available target" for English is the not (or no
48 > longer) working "en_GB.utf8". Being slightly flabbergasted would be a
49 > huge understatement ... :-/
50 >
51 > Sincerely,
52 > Rainer
53
54 Yes, this looks odd, but I have not worked out how locale is sourced in
55 detail. Have you added:
56
57 LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
58
59 in your /etc/env.d/02locale for a system wide setting?

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