bug#51259: Cannot build Guix from source (error messages about the translations)

[Julien Lepiller]

Le Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:40:17 +0200,
Raphaël Mélotte <raphael.melotte@mind.be> a écrit :

> Hello,
> 
> On 10/20/21 4:06 AM, Julien Lepiller wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Since it seems this is due to the lack of the LC_ALL variable in the
> > pure environment, how about the attached patch?  
> 
> With the attached patch on top of master (c650160abb), the build
> fails with messages similar to this one:
> ./doc/guix.de.texi:158: @ref reference to nonexistent node
> `Translating Guix'
> 
> I attached the build logs.
> 
> I used the following to build, to make sure to start from a clean
> tree: ---
> git clean -ffdx && guix environment guix --pure --ad-hoc help2man git
> strace -- sh -c './bootstrap && ./configure --localstatedir=/var &&
> make' | tee build.log
> 
> ---
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Raphaël

So, it looks like my change prevented the xref command from running
altogether, which explains the error. Moving the variable definition
seems to help; I was able to build from a clean checkout in a pure
environment with the attached revised patch.

0001-doc-Set-LC_ALL-when-translating-xref-commands.patch
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