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Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH |
Date: |
Sun, 04 Oct 2015 00:20:26 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
After a lot more thought, I changed my mind.
I realized that with the patch at
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-09/msg00575.html>, it’s OK to
have, say,
LOCPATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale/2.22:$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale/2.23
That way, programs will pick locale data that is compatible; so a 2.23
program might pick most of its locale data from the /2.22 directory (if
they are compatible), and some of them from /2.23 (if the format has
changed.)
We still need ‘GUIX_LOCPATH’ to avoid the assertion failure with older
libcs, only without the complicated semantics discussed yesterday.
The result is in ‘core-updates’:
b6ac545 * gnu: commencement: Remove the tricky locale compatibility handling.
f2d7bbb * gnu: glibc: Look for locale data in versioned sub-directories.
fbb909a * gnu: glibc: Honor 'GUIX_LOCPATH'.
Ludo’.
- Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH, Ricardo Wurmus, 2015/10/08
- Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/08
- Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH, Mark H Weaver, 2015/10/08
- Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/08
- Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH, Federico Beffa, 2015/10/08
- Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/08
- Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/08
- Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH, Federico Beffa, 2015/10/08
- Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH, Mark H Weaver, 2015/10/08
- Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/08
- Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH, Mark H Weaver, 2015/10/08
- Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/08
- Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH, Daniel Pimentel, 2015/10/08
- Re: [PATCH 0/2] Avoiding incompatible locale data in LOCPATH, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/08
- [PATCH 2/2] gnu: glibc: Look for locale data in versioned sub-directories., Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/08
- [PATCH 1/2] gnu: glibc: Honor 'GUIX_LOCPATH'., Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/08