Most of the locale settings I tried did not work. See details below. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. export LC_ALL=hu_HU.UTF-8 2. emerge subversion Actual Results: Compiling goes on for a long time. Then in the end the following error message appears: subversion/svnversion/svnversion . /repos/svn/trunk > /var/tmp/portage/subversion-1.0.8/image//usr/include/subversion-1/svn-revision.txt svnversion: error: cannot set LC_CTYPE locale svnversion: error: environment variable LC_ALL is hu_HU.UTF-8 make: *** [revision-install] Error 1 !!! ERROR: dev-util/subversion-1.0.8 failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 180, Exitcode 2 !!! Installation of subversion failed # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.25_pre7-gss-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.25_pre7-gss-r2 i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 distcc 2.12.1 i586-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.57-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=k6-2 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=k6-2 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.math.bme.hu ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cjk crypt cups encode esd f77 flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk2 guile imap imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls nntp oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype unicode wmf x86 xml xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
You might try with LC_ALL=C or with all the locale variables unset. In the meantime I've taken the fix from 1.1.0 back to 1.0.9.
Thank you! I found in the meanwhile that hu_HU works too, but hu_hu.UTF-8 definitely not. BG