On Saturday 22 April 2006 12:18, R Hill wrote: > one, does this make the compile time explode? IIRC that was one of the > original reasons userlocales was introduced.
no, the compile times are the same with locale-gen as with USE=userlocales ... it's simply a different way of doing it > Sun Apr 16 00:25:33 2006 >>> sys-libs/glibc-2.4-r2 > merge time: 1 hour, 3 minutes and 26 seconds. > > Sat Apr 22 04:23:23 2006 >>> sys-libs/glibc-2.4-r2 > merge time: 1 hour, 41 minutes and 18 seconds. this is because your /etc/locales.gen isnt configured thus the default is to generate *all* locales but the thing now is, once you edit the config file, you just run `locale-gen` rather than wait another hour for `emerge glibc` > * (314/357) Generating te_IN.UTF-8 ... > LC_ADDRESS: invalid escape `%n' sequence in field `postal_fmt' [ !! ] it's a bug in the locale files, these are not new errors ... you just never noticed them before because they were lost in the emerge output -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
