bug#67044: [bug#67686] bug#67044: C.utf8 locale cannot be built

[Tomas Volf]

On 2023-12-09 15:46:58 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > I still believe it makes sense to add the -c also into the locale builder,
> > because my understanding is that this change will not allow using (locale
> > "C.utf8") in the operating-system definition (since that would still try to
> > build it, and fail).
> >
> > If you are not opposed to the idea, I can send a patch if you would prefer 
> > not
> > to do it yourself.
>
> No you’re right, we could add ‘-c’ to the code in (gnu system locale),
> though perhaps it would be safer to do so only in the 2.35 + C.UTF-8
> case.
>
> (We can do that independently of this patch.)

My attempt at that can be found here: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/67735

Tomas

--
There are only two hard things in Computer Science:
cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.

signature.asc
Description: PGP signature