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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2018-06-27 15:36:03 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2018-06-27 16:58:59 +0200 |
| commit | 26db747a863b08ebcfd630cce635be86c23d829d (patch) | |
| tree | 6abb4bd6269058ea071cc8f65c1fd3f73bfe5594 /guix/ui.scm | |
| parent | fc6cbb311c5a1acb9cf1d5422fbf1bc23da31d55 (diff) | |
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ui: Hint at the installation of locale packages and 'GUIX_LOCPATH'.
* guix/ui.scm (install-locale): Hide the "warning: failed to install
locale" on Guile 2.2. Add a hint about 'glibc-utf8-locales' and
'GUIX_LOCPATH'.
Diffstat (limited to 'guix/ui.scm')
| -rw-r--r-- | guix/ui.scm | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/guix/ui.scm b/guix/ui.scm index 31830ee850..ec709450d8 100644 --- a/guix/ui.scm +++ b/guix/ui.scm @@ -421,8 +421,21 @@ report them in a user-friendly way." (lambda _ (setlocale LC_ALL "")) (lambda args - (warning (G_ "failed to install locale: ~a~%") - (strerror (system-error-errno args)))))) + (cond-expand + ;; Guile 2.2 already emits a warning, so let's not add a second one. + (guile-2.2 #t) + (else (warning (G_ "failed to install locale: ~a~%") + (strerror (system-error-errno args))))) + (display-hint (G_ "Consider installing the @code{glibc-utf8-locales} or +@code{glibc-locales} package and defining @code{GUIX_LOCPATH}, along these +lines: + +@example +guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales +export GUIX_LOCPATH=\"$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale\" +@end example + +See the \"Application Setup\" section in the manual, for more info.\n"))))) (define (initialize-guix) "Perform the usual initialization for stand-alone Guix commands." |