On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 04:42:53PM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: >> Thanks for joining in. I have mucho craziness in these directories! >> /usr/share/locale has way too much stuff, but it doesn't have what I >> want. It's missing en_US.utf8 and en_US.ISO8859-1. Also, all of what I >> think are the font files are in a directory called charmaps, not >> charsets, like yours: (This is an AMD64 machine so maybe that's part >> of the difference?) >> >> lightning ~ # ls /usr/share/i18n >> SUPPORTED charmaps locales >> lightning ~ # >> >> Before I do something stupid, can I erase all this /usr/share stuff >> by hand, then re-emerge glibc, rerun locale-gen to get the right >> stuff. I suspect that since I had weird settings in make.conf, now >> fixed with Dale's help, that now if I re-emerge glibc maybe I'll get >> the right stuff? >> > > My apologies for jumping in kind of late in this thread, and I am not > sure if you have answered this question already, but what do you have > as the content of /etc/locale.gen ? I ask because this is useful > prior to you issuing emerge glibc again. > > Best, > > W
Always room for another voice. Thanks for joining. Current contents of /etc/locale.gen were copied from the Gentoo Base System install instructions at the bottom of the page: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6 lightning ~ # cat /etc/locale.gen en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 lightning ~ # When I run locale-gen the results look at least reasonable to me: lightning ~ # locale-gen * Generating 2 locales (this might take a while) with 1 jobs * (1/2) Generating en_US.ISO-8859-1 ... [ ok ] * (2/2) Generating en_US.UTF-8 ... [ ok ] * Generation complete lightning ~ # man locale-gen says it puts everything in /usr/lib/locale which has little on this machine: lightning ~ # ls -al /usr/lib/locale/ total 1504 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-07 18:42 . drwxr-xr-x 115 root root 65536 2008-12-07 14:48 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-12-02 15:06 .keep_sys-libs_glibc-2.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1520480 2008-12-07 18:42 locale-archive lightning ~ # Similar stuff in /usr/lib32/locale and /usr/lib64/locale. It seems that these are the files modified by locale-gen: lightning ~ # ls -al /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1520480 2008-12-07 18:42 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive lightning ~ # date Sun Dec 7 18:53:33 PST 2008 lightning ~ # locale-gen * Generating 2 locales (this might take a while) with 1 jobs * (1/2) Generating en_US.ISO-8859-1 ... [ ok ] * (2/2) Generating en_US.UTF-8 ... [ ok ] * Generation complete lightning ~ # ls -al /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1520480 2008-12-07 18:53 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive lightning ~ # The date is updated after running locale-gen. I guess what I have left to decide is what to do with /etc/env.d/02locale. smallnow suggests putting everything in there it seems. I suspect others here have working systems but nothing in those files. I've never modified that file in 8 years of running Gentoo. I suppose I probably missed the memo! I tried to solve this problem a couple of months ago and heard something similar on the gentoo-64 list but didn't get far enough to want to do it. Maybe now's the time? Thanks, Mark
