On Saturday, 12 June 2021 15:43:18 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> 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 ---8><---
> 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:
>
> ---8><---
> 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.
> ---8><---
> fmtutil [INFO]: --- remaking luahbtex with luahbtex
> fmtutil: running `luahbtex -ini -jobname=luahbtex -progname=luahbtex
> luatex.ini' ... Unable to read environment locale: exit now.
> ---8><---
> fmtutil [INFO]: --- remaking dviluatex with luatex
> fmtutil: running `luatex -ini -jobname=dviluatex -progname=dviluatex
> dviluatex.ini' ... Unable to read environment locale: exit now.
> ---8><---
> 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,
> RainerI can't speak for your lua* packages, but as long as you have defined your locale correctly in /etc/locale.gen your system should source what it needs from there. Regarding perl complaining, there was a perl update recently (stable) so running perl-cleaner is recommended and may fix at least your texlive-basic issue.
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