bug#54893: guix-daemon, locale, LANG, and unicode in git tag names

[Maxime Devos]

Attila Lendvai schreef op di 19-04-2022 om 11:38 [+0000]:
> > thank you, this works indeed as a band aid:
> > 
> > (setenv "GUIX_LOCPATH" #+(file-append glibc-locales "/lib/locale"))
> > (setlocale LC_ALL "en_US.utf8")
> 
> 
> i spoke too early. this works in a git checkout of guix, but it fails
> to compile when i try to guix pull it.
> 
> even if i declare the dependency like this:
> 
> #:autoload   (gnu packages base) (glibc-locales)
> 
> IIUC, this is due to a circular dependency: glibc-locales (and its
> variants) depend on git-fetch, therefore i cannot refer to them from
> the implementation of git-fetch.

The module of the glibc-locales package depends on git-fetch, but I
don't think the package glibc-locales does.  Anyway, circular imports
are messy and (guix build-system ...) and (guix git-download) use an
extra-lazy variant of #:autoload that doesn't load the module even when
compiling (*).

(*) Limitation: this method cannot be used to use macros.

Maybe the attached variant works?

Greetings,
Maxime.

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