master build problems with en_US.utf8 locale

[Patrick Jaap]

The autogen.sh error is introduced by

commit 6b56ca7a9bf67bcada666f4cb1c2e20e7c0d512e
Author: Mike Kaganski <mike.kaganski at collabora.com>
Date:   Mon Oct 29 14:36:24 2018 +0100

     Add check for en_US.utf8 locale

     Change-Id: I62ce7680c65ec49dd81085d4087c578f3b6c7907
     Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/62508
     Tested-by: Jenkins
     Reviewed-by: Mike Kaganski <mike.kaganski at collabora.com>


Why is the en_US.utf8 locale necessary?

Regards,
Patrick



Am 31.10.2018 um 12:59 schrieb Patrick Jaap:
> Hi!
>
> Currently, I cannot build master. The configuration stops with
>
> [...]
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking for gawk... /usr/bin/gawk
> checking for bash... /bin/bash
> checking for en_US.utf8 locale... absent
> configure: error: you need en_US.utf8 locale to build
> Error running configure at /home/tu/git-stuff/libreoffice/autogen.sh 
> line 296.
>
>
> On my older branches it works well.
>
> I have use "Debian testing" (64bit).
>
> Is this a LO related problem or is it a bug in Debian?
>
> Regrads,
> Patrick