From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Dec 14 7:54:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from seagull.cpinternet.com (mail.cpinternet.com [209.240.224.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1415737B405 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 07:54:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from 209.240.253.23 ([209.240.253.23]) by seagull.cpinternet.com (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id fBEFs9e1007576 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:54:10 -0600 (CST) Received: by 209.240.253.23 (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4B2A314A03; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:54:52 -0600 (CST) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: gdm and environment variables Keywords: perl,warning,locale From: Michael Harnois Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:54:50 -0600 Message-ID: <864rmtdcfp.fsf@mharnois.workgroup.net> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.5 (asparagus, i386-unknown-freebsd5.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Something about the difference between gdm and xdm seems to cause certain important environment variables not to get set, i.e. using perl generates messages like perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = "en_US" are supported and installed on your system. Anyone have a clue? -- Michael D. Harnois bilocational bivocational Pastor, Redeemer Lutheran Church Washburn, Iowa 1L, UST School of Law Minneapolis, Minnesota "I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts." --Horace Mann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message