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Cannot build Guix from source (error messages about the translations)

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From: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
To: Raphaël Mélotte <raphael.melotte <at> mind.be>
Cc: 51259 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Simon Streit <simon <at> netpanic.org>, Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Subject: bug#51259: Cannot build Guix from source (error messages about the translations)
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 04:06:15 +0200

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Le Tue, 19 Oct 2021 12:29:47 +0200,
Raphaël Mélotte <raphael.melotte <at> mind.be> a écrit :

> On 10/19/21 11:59 AM, Simon Streit wrote:
> > Extending my previous message:
> > 
> > I first thought that it had to do with commit
> > 15c91189cb61c579f4289047c79530cefe75215f, but it turns out that
> > commit 0623138ffa5b066afc25547ffdeb97753cb0ee9a creates these
> > errors.
> > 
> > Commit d1b375402f5680b1e5a77dd1fb77e1e9d94625d1 is okay.  
> Building on Debian 10, I was about to report the same.
>  From a git bisect I got:
> "0623138ffa5b066afc25547ffdeb97753cb0ee9a is the first bad commit".
> 
> I can confirm that in the meantime, compiling with $LC_ALL set
> manually (to the value of $LANG outside the environment) also worked
> for me: ---
> guix environment guix --pure --ad-hoc help2man git strace bash -- sh
> -c "export LC_ALL=$LANG && ./bootstrap && ./configure
> --localstatedir=/var && make ---
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Raphaël
> 
> 
> 

Since it seems this is due to the lack of the LC_ALL variable in the
pure environment, how about the attached patch?

[0001-doc-Set-LC_ALL-when-translating-xref-commands.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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