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Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/packages/base.scm')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/base.scm | 20 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/base.scm b/gnu/packages/base.scm index 80b0332de7..c6abf56ebf 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/base.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm @@ -689,12 +689,22 @@ the 'share/locale' sub-directory of this package.") (mkdir-p localedir) (every (lambda (locale) - (zero? (system* "localedef" "--no-archive" - "--prefix" localedir "-i" locale - "-f" "UTF-8" + (define file + ;; Use the "normalized codeset" by + ;; default--e.g., "en_US.utf8". + (string-append localedir "/" locale ".utf8")) + + (and (zero? (system* "localedef" "--no-archive" + "--prefix" localedir + "-i" locale + "-f" "UTF-8" file)) + (begin + ;; For backward compatibility with Guix + ;; <= 0.8.3, add "xx_YY.UTF-8". + (symlink (string-append locale ".utf8") (string-append localedir "/" - locale - ".UTF-8")))) + locale ".UTF-8")) + #t))) ;; These are the locales commonly used for ;; tests---e.g., in Guile's i18n tests. |