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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2019-06-17 10:51:49 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2019-06-17 12:36:13 +0200
commited504cafa23c34bfa1823a4d5abf3ad55205484b (patch)
treeda73060dcdea5253068a1bd31ea96b2fb0d1c0b6 /gnu/system
parent123b9c02dddd21b61858fbf01fb356c14f220f21 (diff)
downloadguix-ed504cafa23c34bfa1823a4d5abf3ad55205484b.tar.gz
vm: 'system-docker-image' builds in a UTF-8 locale.
Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/36215>.
Reported by Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de>.

This is a followup to 9c941364bfc0120e3ab5c5c4cc71a9a302d59a2b.

* gnu/system/vm.scm (system-docker-image)[build]: Set GUIX_LOCPATH and
call 'setlocale'.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/system')
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diff --git a/gnu/system/vm.scm b/gnu/system/vm.scm
index 0d4ed63eec..e7f7d8ca51 100644
--- a/gnu/system/vm.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/vm.scm
@@ -535,6 +535,11 @@ system."
               ;; Set the SQL schema location.
               (sql-schema #$schema)
 
+              ;; Allow non-ASCII file names--e.g., 'nss-certs'--to be decoded.
+              (setenv "GUIX_LOCPATH"
+                      #+(file-append glibc-utf8-locales "/lib/locale"))
+              (setlocale LC_ALL "en_US.utf8")
+
               (let* (;; This initializer requires elevated privileges that are
                      ;; not normally available in the build environment (e.g.,
                      ;; it needs to create device nodes).  In order to obtain