Changeset 2cbfee09

Timestamp:

01/26/2015 08:31:43 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

b37b932

Parents:

78fdc22

Message:

Build xindy in the POSIX locale, thanks to Pierre and Bruce for help in debugging what I miscategorised as an i686 problem.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@15397 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• pst/typesetting/xindy.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -49 +49 @@
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Use the POSIX locale to build xindy. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;5926">#5926</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>[pierre] - Update to OpenJDK-1.8.0.31. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;6062">#6062</ulink>.</para>

pst/typesetting/xindy.xml

@@ -39 +39 @@
     </para>
 
-    <note>
-      <para>
-        At the moment, this works on x86_64 but does not work on 32-bit x86.
-        Help in debugging this will be welcomed.
-      </para>
-    </note>
-
     &lfs76_checked;
 
@@ -104 +97 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>export TEXARCH=$(uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' -e 's/$/-linux/') &amp;&amp;
+
+SAVE_LC_ALL=$LC_ALL &amp;&amp;
+LC_ALL=POSIX &amp;&amp;
 
 ./configure --prefix=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;              \
@@ -111 +107 @@
             --libdir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist   \
             --mandir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/doc/man &amp;&amp;
-make</userinput></screen>
+make &amp;&amp;
+LC_ALL=$SAVE_LC_ALL &amp;&amp; unset SAVE_LC_ALL
+</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>
@@ -127 +125 @@
   <sect2 role="commands">
     <title>Command Explanations</title>
+
+    <para>
+      <parameter>SAVE_LC_ALL=...</parameter>: with the current version of
+      <application>coreutils</application> it is essential to build
+      <application>xindy</application> in the POSIX (or C) locale because in a
+      UTF-8 locale the file <filename>latin.xdy</filename> will contain only a
+      heading and then a line '<literal>Binary file (standard input)
+      matches</literal>' instead of the many lines of
+      <application>lisp</application> merge-rule commands it ought to contain.
+    </para>
 
     <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"