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Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/base.scm | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm index a3e3e36608..a7d9459913 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/base.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm @@ -509,12 +509,16 @@ store.") ;; Set the default locale path. In practice, $LOCPATH may be ;; defined to point whatever locales users want. However, setuid ;; binaries don't honor $LOCPATH, so they'll instead look into - ;; $libc_cv_localedir; we choose /run/current-system/locale, with - ;; the idea that it is going to be populated by the sysadmin. + ;; $libc_cv_localedir; we choose /run/current-system/locale/X.Y, + ;; with the idea that it is going to be populated by the sysadmin. + ;; The "X.Y" sub-directory is because locale data formats are + ;; incompatible across libc versions; see + ;; <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-08/msg00737.html>. ;; ;; `--localedir' is not honored, so work around it. ;; See <http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-03/msg00093.html>. - (string-append "libc_cv_localedir=/run/current-system/locale") + (string-append "libc_cv_localedir=/run/current-system/locale/" + ,version) (string-append "--with-headers=" (assoc-ref %build-inputs "linux-headers") |