glibc in chapter 6: not use locales?

davemar · 04-14-2004, 05:44 AM

I'm having a nightmare trying to install glibc in chapter 6. It gets past the configure and make stages fine it seems, but falls over in 'make check', when it starts to test the locales. I deciced to go ahead and try a 'make install' anyway, but it falls over while trying to install some locales (Antartica/Casey???).

Is it really necessary to have the locales, and can I run configure to make glibc without them?

iluvatar · 04-15-2004, 06:57 AM

wich book are you using? from the LFS 5.0 book:

Quote:

#make
- Test the results:
#make check
- The test suite notes from the Section called Installing Glibc-2.3.2 in Chapter 5 are still very much appropriate here. Be sure to refer back there should you have any doubts.
And install the package:
#make install
- The locales that can make your system respond in a different language weren't installed by the above command. Do it with this:
#make localedata/install-locales

according to this, the locales are installed after glibc is installed...

greetz,
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davemar · 04-18-2004, 10:01 AM

Yes, I'm using LFS-5.0.

I'm doing things in that order. It appears that "make check" checks some locales type stuff,
and "make install" tries to install things like various country-related data, which I assume
is some locale stuff. It does seem a little stange it does this here when there's a "make locales"
happening afterwards?

iluvatar · 04-20-2004, 03:14 AM

I think you can configure without the locales and install them later on... from my memory I didn't see any locales tests nor any locales install during the "make check" and "make install" commands...

greetz,
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davemar · 04-20-2004, 03:43 AM

I had a quick scan through the INSTALL file and configure --help and didn't really see anything obvious to explain how I could configure without locales?

iluvatar · 04-20-2004, 05:15 AM

hmmm don't know... I've read some info and noticed the locales aren't needed (except for some checks by gcc) but I've not seen any info on how to configure glibc without them... I guess there's something wrong in the test, as far as I remember I hadn't had any "locales-test"

greetz,
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