Re: [gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday, 14 June 2021 17:36:11 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Michael,
>
> On Sunday, 2021-06-13 18:23:54 +0100, you wrote:
> > ...
> > Yes, this looks odd, but I have not worked out how locale is sourced in
> >
> > detail.  Have you added:
> >  LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
> >
> > in your /etc/env.d/02locale for a system wide setting?
>
> No, this file still contains
>
>    LANG="en_GB.utf8"
>
> However, if I change that line to
>
>    LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
>
> then I do get a new locale when running
>
>    # env-update
>
>    >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
>
>    # eselect locale list
>    Available targets for the LANG variable:
>      [1]   C
>      [2]   C.utf8
>      [3]   POSIX
>      [4]   en_GB.utf8
>      [5]   en_GB.UTF-8 *
>      [ ]   (free form)
>    #
>
> but afterwards  re-building package "texlive-basic" again fails  until I
> undo this change by executing
>
>    # eselect locale set 4
>    # env-update
>
>    >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...

After that you need to source /etc/profile, no?

>    # eselect locale list
>    Available targets for the LANG variable:
>      [1]   C
>      [2]   C.utf8
>      [3]   POSIX
>      [4]   en_GB.utf8 *
>      [ ]   (free form)
>    # grep -v '^#' /etc/env.d/02locale
>    LANG="en_GB.utf8"
>    #
>
> So "en_GB.utf8" in "02locale"  but "export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8" in my Shell
> script doing the Gentoo updates is the only working combination I've yet
> found.  Explanations heartily welcome :-/
>
> Sincerely,
>   Rainer


-- 
Regards,
Peter.