Bug 15194 – Gnome 2.2 build problem when the locale is UTF-8

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jungmin Seo (RETIRED) 2003-02-06 01:14:33 UTC]

When one of my friends tried to build nautilus and gnome-panel (for gnome 2.2)
with his locale setting to UTF-8, he failed to build them.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
Before building them, the systems' locales must be set to C or something else.
(LANG=C, LC_ALL=en_US worked)

my friend is checking on other gnome-2.2 related builds. As i am notified by
him, i will add some more on this bug.

[Comment 1 Markus Bertheau (RETIRED) 2003-02-06 02:23:18 UTC]

I wonder where the build failed, it didn't for me with ru_RU.UTF-8.

Anyway, there are other problems with building gnome under a utf-8 locale, see 

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98988

Therefore it is not advisable to build GNOME under a UTF-8 locale.

[Comment 2 Jungmin Seo (RETIRED) 2003-02-06 13:51:55 UTC]

If it is not advisable to build gnome under utf-8, then can't we just force to change the locale before the users build it? (in ebuilds?)

[Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) 2003-02-06 14:22:03 UTC]

nah, we should just advice ppl not to do it. But fixing a dozen ebuilds that way imo is not an option.

[Comment 4 Markus Bertheau (RETIRED) 2003-02-06 17:26:17 UTC]

Rather make portage set LANG to en_US or something similarily generic, or better yet, let's fix the intltool bug :)

[Comment 5 foser (RETIRED) 2003-02-06 20:43:13 UTC]

portage changes are hardly my call and there's probably something to say against it. And its not a solution that will get here soon anyway.

Is this an intltool problem, ive seen no output . reporter can you attach some output of failing builds ?

[Comment 6 Jungmin Seo (RETIRED) 2003-02-08 01:25:20 UTC]

hi.. i have been clarifying this issue with my friend..

It was not actually 'failing to build the ebuilds'

After building the following 2.2 packages, 

gnome-applet, 
nautilus, 
nautilus-media, 
gnome-util, 
gnome-system-moniter 
and quick-lounge-applet, 

under UTF-8, the fonts on the applet menu of the gnome panel were broken.  Changing the locale solved this problem, and he did not experience this before(<=gnome 2.1).

He and I also assume this is an intltool problem.

[Comment 7 foser (RETIRED) 2003-02-08 08:10:42 UTC]

it is and we are aware of it, we are looking for a failsafe solution

[Comment 8 foser (RETIRED) 2003-05-17 11:02:03 UTC]

ok, looks like the new intltool-0.26 contains fixes for this, can anyone confirm said problems are resolved by using 0.26 ?

[Comment 9 Markus Bertheau (RETIRED) 2003-05-17 11:29:44 UTC]

At least the according gnome bugzilla bug has been fixed a while ago, and the fix also got in 0.26.

[Comment 10 foser (RETIRED) 2003-05-17 12:48:14 UTC]

yes i know, i'm asking for some real user confirmation that it solved the problem for them.

[Comment 11 foser (RETIRED) 2003-07-12 10:02:58 UTC]

just added gnome-2.2.2 meta package with intltool-0.26 as dep, so that should get us around trouble most of the time.

[Comment 12 Markus Bertheau (RETIRED) 2003-07-12 10:19:37 UTC]

Are you sure about that? intltool is usually "embedded" in the packages, do they pick up the new intltool?