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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2016-11-08 23:20:11 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2016-11-08 23:31:27 +0100
commit946465bbaffa628e08cfbc34fc8064b4b4b1644e (patch)
tree598960082ad1f075bdf010680413f1296c4893d4 /gnu/system.scm
parente3ec6c806a1ded623280b1520a823e4c9c1bfb16 (diff)
system: Reintroduce 'GUIX_LOCPATH', for compatibility with glibc@2.23.
* gnu/system.scm (operating-system-environment-variables): Re-add 'GUIX_LOCPATH'. This reverts part of 9f58fe3d1c32e3f0ced065e286532a10cad1b5e3.
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diff --git a/gnu/system.scm b/gnu/system.scm
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@@ -566,7 +566,15 @@ use 'plain-file' instead~%")
;; By default, applications that use D-Bus, such as Emacs, abort at startup
;; when /etc/machine-id is missing. Make sure these warnings are non-fatal.
- ("DBUS_FATAL_WARNINGS" . "0")))
+ ("DBUS_FATAL_WARNINGS" . "0")
+
+ ;; XXX: Normally we wouldn't need to do this, but our glibc@2.23 package
+ ;; used to look things up in 'PREFIX/lib/locale' instead of
+ ;; '/run/current-system/locale' as was intended. Keep this hack around so
+ ;; that people who still have glibc@2.23-using packages in their profiles
+ ;; can use them correctly.
+ ;; TODO: Remove when glibc@2.23 is long gone.
+ ("GUIX_LOCPATH" . "/run/current-system/locale")))
(define %setuid-programs
;; Default set of setuid-root programs.