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bug#22905: GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE produces unavoidable noise
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Andy Wingo |
Subject: |
bug#22905: GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE produces unavoidable noise |
Date: |
Sun, 07 Aug 2016 23:58:11 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri 04 Mar 2016 15:13, Zefram <address@hidden> writes:
> GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE=1 breaks some of the robustness of non-locale-using
> programs, marring their stderr output if the environment's locale settings
> are faulty.
I believe this is consistent with other programs which call setlocale,
notably Perl and Bash. I think the right way to avoid the output is to
avoid the call to setlocale, and Guile offers the GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE=0
knob to do this.
> However, if it is deemed to be essential that Guile attempt the implicit
> setlocale and gripe about its failure, then the message should not
> precede or otherwise mix with the actual program run. The message should
> be emitted *instead of* running the program, declaring the absolute
> incompatibility of the Guile framework with this environmental condition.
Your suggestion is not what Perl or Bash does, FWIW. But it is
possible -- we could emit an error and require the user to run with
GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE=0. Or we could add that suggestion to the
warning. Probably adding the suggestion to the warning is the right
thing; wdyt? Try "LC_ALL=fasdada perl" for an example.
Andy
- bug#22905: GUILE_INSTALL_LOCALE produces unavoidable noise,
Andy Wingo <=