Greetings,
it's been quite a while that I had problems doing my routine Gentoo up-
grade. This time package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" balked, and
in the build log I found this:
* Package: dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021
* Repository: gentoo
* Maintainer: aball...@gentoo.org t...@gentoo.org
* USE: abi_x86_64 amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux luajittex userland_GNU
* FEATURES: network-sandbox preserve-libs sandbox userpriv usersandbox
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perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_GB:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LC_MESSAGES = "C",
LC_CTYPE = "C.UTF-8",
LC_COLLATE = "C",
LANG = "en_GB"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
While the value of environment variable "LANGUAGE" is clearly mine, the
other values except "LC_COLLATE" and "LC_ALL" are obviously _not mine_
(in particular "LANG" is missing the ".utf8" part):
$ sudo env | grep LANGU
Password:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
$ sudo locale
LANG=en_GB.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.utf8"
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.utf8"
LC_ALL=
$
Using "grep" to sift through my build logs the first occurance of the
line "perl: warning: Setting locale failed." occured a year ago at 2020-
05-18 while upgrading package "media-libs/exiftool-11.93" and since then
it is present in quite a few build logs without apparently doing any
harm. However, now making "luatex", "luahbtex", and "dviluatex" as part
of package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" all failed with "Unable to
read environment locale: exit now." and finally caused the build to die:
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fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence order):
fmtutil: texmf-dist/fmtutil/format.texlive-basic.cnf
fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing changes:
fmtutil: texmf-dist/fmtutil/format.texlive-basic.cnf
fmtutil [INFO]: writing formats under
/var/tmp/portage/dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021/work/texmf-var/web2c
fmtutil [INFO]: --- remaking luatex with luatex
fmtutil: running `luatex -ini -jobname=luatex -progname=luatex luatex.ini' ...
Unable to read environment locale: exit now.
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fmtutil [INFO]: --- remaking luahbtex with luahbtex
fmtutil: running `luahbtex -ini -jobname=luahbtex -progname=luahbtex
luatex.ini' ...
Unable to read environment locale: exit now.
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fmtutil [INFO]: --- remaking dviluatex with luatex
fmtutil: running `luatex -ini -jobname=dviluatex -progname=dviluatex
dviluatex.ini' ...
Unable to read environment locale: exit now.
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fmtutil [INFO]: failed to build: 3 (luatex/luatex luahbtex/luahbtex
luatex/dviluatex)
fmtutil [INFO]: total formats: 8
fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 3
* ERROR: dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021::gentoo failed (compile phase):
* failed to build format texmf-dist/fmtutil/format.texlive-basic.cnf
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 125: Called src_compile
* environment, line 510: Called texlive-module_src_compile
* environment, line 721: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* VARTEXFONTS="${T}/fonts"
TEXMFHOME="${S}/texmf:${S}/texmf-dist:${S}/texmf-var" env -u TEXINPUTS
$fmt_call --cnffile "${i}" --fmtdir "${S}/texmf-var/web2c" --all || die "failed
to build format ${i}";
Is the failure to make "luatex", "luahbtex", and "dviluatex" due to not
being able to "read environment locale" a consequence of "perl" claiming
to have problems with _my_ locale? If not, what else is going on here?
Sincerely,
Rainer
