[arch-dev-public] packages in core that don't build from PKGBUILD

[Jan de Groot]

On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 09:43 +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> 2008/8/29 Andrea Scarpino <bash.lnx at gmail.com>:
> > 2008/8/29 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> 
> >> Just a quick question for ya though - what is pacbuilder? Is it an
> >> automated build tool?
> > Yes, pacbuilder is a tool to massively recompile archlinux packages from sources
> > http://code.google.com/p/pacbuilder/
> 
> Wow, project owner is the author of Murrina engine for GTK! :-)
> 
> 2008/8/29 Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>:
> > gcc-libs and gcc failures will probably be due to needing a de_DE locale.
> >  From their PKGBUILDS:
> >
> >  if ! locale -a | grep ^de_DE; then
> >   echo "You need the de_DE locale to build gcc."
> >   return 1
> >  fi
> 
> German conspiracy? :-)
> Seriously - why does it _require_ exactly that license? :-)

German conspiracy...
gcc checks for a bug in the de_DE locale to see if it can enable
--clocale=gnu. Older versions of glibc have this bug. If de_DE is not
enabled, this check triggers the wrong result and --clocale=gnu is not
set.