Re: missing locale information

[Andreas Jaeger]

Marco Quezada <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I compiled glibc-2.2.4 with the linuxthreads addon on a redhat
> system. I ran the make check and everything looked alright. After
> installing however, most programs emit the following error when
> invoked:
>
> Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged

Did you regenerate the locales after installation?

Read the FAQ how to do it,
Andreas

> or
>
> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
>
>
> The error does not seem to affect performance of the program. Will
> recompiling the program or it's libraries (in the case of gtk/gdk, and
> others) be enough to fix this issue? Or did I miss something when
> building my glibc?
>
> Thanks.
>
> ps. If I type 'locale' at the shell prompt this is what I get:
>
> geko:/lib> locale
> LANG=en_US
> LC_CTYPE="en_US"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
> LC_TIME="en_US"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
> LC_PAPER="en_US"
> LC_NAME="en_US"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
> LC_ALL=

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