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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-10-12 21:42:06 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-10-12 21:42:06 +0200
commitadc90e0eac3cb326cd687f80514dad6a5240969d (patch)
tree6335b4b8cded5dc1518b5494762cdb09d8acbab1 /gnu/system
parenta8bc747ae1ba53c4c8719730284a771187d8ccfb (diff)
parent9765b3aeac88ae9c9ffc38ed6d1f8dcbd9abca7b (diff)
Merge branch 'core-updates'
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/system')
-rw-r--r--gnu/system/locale.scm9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/system/locale.scm b/gnu/system/locale.scm
index 393dd42354..010fb45272 100644
--- a/gnu/system/locale.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/locale.scm
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
(define-module (gnu system locale)
#:use-module (guix gexp)
#:use-module (guix records)
+ #:use-module (guix packages)
#:use-module (gnu packages base)
#:use-module (gnu packages compression)
#:use-module (srfi srfi-26)
@@ -57,14 +58,20 @@
"-i" #$(locale-definition-source locale)
"-f" #$(locale-definition-charset locale)
(string-append #$output "/"
+ #$(package-version libc) "/"
#$(locale-definition-name locale))))))
(define* (locale-directory locales
#:key (libc (canonical-package glibc)))
- "Return a directory containing all of LOCALES compiled."
+ "Return a directory containing all of LOCALES for LIBC compiled.
+
+Because locale data formats are incompatible when switching from one libc to
+another, locale data is put in a sub-directory named after the 'version' field
+of LIBC."
(define build
#~(begin
(mkdir #$output)
+ (mkdir (string-append #$output "/" #$(package-version libc)))
;; 'localedef' executes 'gzip' to access compressed locale sources.
(setenv "PATH" (string-append #$gzip "/bin"))