The format of locale data can be incompatible between libc versions, and loading incompatible data can lead to 'setlocale' returning EINVAL at best or triggering an assertion failure at worst. See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-09/msg00717.html for background information. To address that, this patch changes libc to honor a new 'GUIX_LOCPATH' variable, and to look for locale data in version-specific sub-directories of that variable. So, if GUIX_LOCPATH=/foo:/bar, locale data is searched for in /foo/X.Y and /bar/X.Y, where X.Y is the libc version number. That way, a single 'GUIX_LOCPATH' setting can work even if different libc versions coexist on the system. --- a/locale/newlocale.c +++ b/locale/newlocale.c @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ /* Lock for protecting global data. */ __libc_rwlock_define (extern , __libc_setlocale_lock attribute_hidden) +extern error_t compute_locale_search_path (char **, size_t *); /* Use this when we come along an error. */ #define ERROR_RETURN \ @@ -48,7 +49,6 @@ __newlocale (int category_mask, const char *locale, __locale_t base) __locale_t result_ptr; char *locale_pat
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