Re: Build failure for texinfo revision 6402 from SVN

[Gavin Smith]

On 11 July 2015 at 09:17, Stefan Husmann <address@hidden> wrote:
>> As you can see it's hit a snag because it tried to set the locale to
>> en_US.UTF-8 but failed for some reason.
>>
>> We do plan on making it possible to recover from this (using
>> alternative functions to process UTF-8 data), but I do find it strange
>> that this locale is (apparently) not supported on your system.
>>
>> I see there is a test
>>
>> checking whether wcwidth works reasonably in UTF-8 locales... yes
>>
>> so maybe there is some other way to set a UTF-8 locale that we should use.
>>
>> Could you try running "locale -a" and see if any UTF-8 locales are listed?
>>
>> Gavin
>>
> Hello,
> I only have de_DE.utf8.
>
> address@hidden texinfo]$ locale -a
> C
> POSIX
> de_DE
> de_DE.iso88591
> address@hidden
> de_DE.utf8
> address@hidden
> deutsch
> german
>
> After your mail I uncommented the line
> fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8
> in /etc/locale.gen and reran locale-gen, but the issue remains.

Using en_US-UTF-8 would work. You have a UTF-8 locale, but I don't
know the best way of finding it, other than trying lots of different
options like "de_DE.utf8", etc.

Using "setlocale (LC_CTYPE, ".UTF-8")" doesn't work - the language
code must be present. Any suggestions, other than trying to run
"locale -a" when the program is run?

> Maybe it is worth to say that the 6.0 tarball of texinfo does not fall into 
> this issue.

That's not surprising.