Created attachment 715926 [details] emerge --info When installing sys-libs/glibc-2.33-r1 on a prefix install in /home/marienz/gentoo, locale-gen isn't getting its paths right: >>> Original instance of package unmerged safely. /home/marienz/gentoo/usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 166: /home/marienz/gentoousr/bin/localedef: No such file or directory * Unable to parse the output of your localedef utility. * File a bug about this issue and include the output of 'localedef --help'. locale-gen --jobs 22 --config /home/marienz/gentoo//etc/locale.gen --destdir /home/marienz/gentoo/ * Using locale.gen from /home/marienz/gentooetc/ * Building locales in DESTDIR '/home/marienz/gentoo/' * Generating 2 locales (this might take a while) with 22 jobs * (2/2) Generating C.UTF-8 ... [ ok ] * (1/2) Generating en_US.UTF-8 ... [ ok ] * Generation complete * Adding locales to archive ... [ ok ] /home/marienz/gentoousr/bin/localedef does indeed not exist, but /home/marienz/gentoo/usr/bin/localedef works fine. It looks like this happens because when EROOT is unset, locale-gen sets it with a trailing "/" (which it relies on for DESTDIR and CONFIG further on): : ${EROOT:="${EPREFIX}/"} But it's called from an EAPI 7 ebuild, which exports EROOT without a trailing "/". Running "EROOT=/home/marienz/gentoo locale-gen --list --config ~/gentoo/etc/locale.gen" reproduces the problem, but "locale-gen --list --config ~/gentoo/etc/locale.gen" (with EROOT unset) works correctly. It looks like this is cosmetic, because of a second bug. The failing locale-gen run is the one to check if there are any locales configured, which it does by checking for any output to stdout: if [[ -z $(locale-gen --list --config "${locale_list}") ]] ; then [[ -z ${inplace} ]] && ewarn "Generating all locales; edit /etc/locale.gen to save time/space" locale_list="${root}/usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED" fi But on a prefix system, locale-gen prints a status message to stdout: % EROOT=/home/marienz/gentoo locale-gen --list --config ~/gentoo/etc/locale.gen 2>/dev/null * Using locale.gen from /home/marienz/gentooetc/ That message is conditional on ${EROOT} != "/", so you won't see it on a "normal" system. But on a prefix system, the ebuild will always assume we have locales configured. The second invocation of locale-gen passes --destdir in addition to --config, which works around the EROOT issue entirely (the "Using locale.gen from /home/marienz/gentooetc/" is cosmetic: it's actually using locale.gen passed in as --config, which uses the correct path). The status message should probably be behind "[ ${QUIET} -eq 0 ]] && [[ -z ${JUST_LIST} ]]" checks, like most of the rest of the einfo calls are (and report ${CONFIG} after setting that, not ${EROOT}etc/).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 779790 ***
