commit 76e07ef6911734eac418e399b114f1b544512736 cause "Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C"

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Mon Aug 9 07:26:22 PDT 2010


Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 01:38:49PM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
>> commit 76e07ef6911734eac418e399b114f1b544512736 cause "Warning: locale not 
>> supported by Xlib, locale set to C". Starting X will cause this warning on 
>> the console. Might be just fvwm that can't handle this, but Xterm takes a 
>> long time to come up and can't "paste" using the mouse. Reverting the 
>> commit solves the problem.
>>
>> Perhaps XORG_PROG_RAWCPP is still required in configure.ac ?
> 
> It sounds as if the preprocessor is used in a context other than generating
> manpages.  If that's so, it's a regression which the developers would be
> expected to fix.

Yes - in Xlib, cpp is also used to generate many of the files under the nls
subdirectory for the various locale-specific data files.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
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