Re: Required packages

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> Now I get the following error:
> Backtrace:
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>  157: 5 [catch #t #<catch-closure ca1780> ...]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 4 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure ca1780>]
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   63: 3 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...]
> In ice-9/eval.scm:
>  421: 2 [eval # #]
> In /home/privat/.guix-profile/bin/guild:
>   54: 1 [main ("/home/privat/.guix-profile/bin/guild" "compile" "-L" ...)]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 0 [setlocale 6 ""]
>
> ERROR: In procedure setlocale:
> ERROR: In procedure setlocale: Invalid argument
> make[2]: *** [guix/base32.go] Fehler 1
>
> The lines in guild around the error are:
>   (if (defined? 'setlocale)
>       (setlocale LC_ALL ""))
> If I replace this by
>   (if (defined? 'setlocale)
>       (setlocale LC_ALL "C"))
> compilation succeeds. A bug in guile/guild?

Yes.  Fixed at
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?h=stable-2.0&id=e2c6bf3866d1186c60bacfbd4fe5037087ee5e3f>.

The core problem is that our glibc doesn’t install locale data (nor
timezone data).  Something to be fixed in the next core-updates.

Ludo’.