Honor a special 'GUIX_LOCPATH' environment variable. This is most useful when using Guix on top of another distro, which uses an different libc version with incompatible locale data. In this case, setting 'GUIX_LOCPATH' rather than 'LOCPATH' allows users to tell Guix's libc where to look for its locale data without breaking programs that use the other libc. See for some background information. --- a/locale/newlocale.c +++ b/locale/newlocale.c @@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ __newlocale (int category_mask, const char *locale, __locale_t base) locale_path_len = 0; locpath_var = getenv ("LOCPATH"); + if (locpath_var == NULL || locpath_var[0] == '\0') + locpath_var = getenv ("GUIX_LOCPATH"); if (locpath_var != NULL && locpath_var[0] != '\0') { if (__argz_create_sep (locpath_var, ':', diff --git a/locale/setlocale.c b/locale/setlocale.c index ead030d..0e66c7b 100644 --- a/locale/setlocale.c +++ b/locale/setlocale.c @@ -252,6 +252,8 @@ setlocale (int category, const char *locale) locale_path_len = 0; locpath_var = getenv ("LOCPATH"); + if (locpath_var == NULL || locpath_var[0] == '\0') + locpath_var = getenv ("GUIX_LOCPATH"); if (locpath_var != NULL && locpath_var[0] != '\0') { if (__argz_create_sep (locpath_var, ':',