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Date:      Fri, 18 Apr 1997 08:30:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.ru>
To:        freebsd-ports
Subject:   Re: ports/3322: setlocale problem in lang/perl5
Message-ID:  <199704181530.IAA12257@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR ports/3322; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.ru>
To: sanpei@yy.cs.keio.ac.jp
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org,
        GNATS Management <gnats@freefall.freebsd.org>,
        freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/3322: setlocale problem in lang/perl5
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:48:03 +0400 (MSD)

 On Fri, 18 Apr 1997 sanpei@yy.cs.keio.ac.jp wrote:
 
 > 	(1) setlocale function is used in perl5.
 > 	(2) shared library which has setlocale is libc and libxpg4.
 > 	    setlocale in libc is only support LANG C.
 > 	    on the other, setlocale in libxpg4 is support other
 > 	    LANGs, one is ja_JP.EUC.
 > 	(3) And perl5 is linked only libc, not libxpg4.
 > 	(4) If set environment variable LANG to ja_JP.EUC, perl5
 > 	    outputted some warnings.
 > 
 > 	Solution
 > 	    link libxpg4 (before libc.)
 
 It is possible only if perl5 fully support 16bit wide characters
 and string, if not, it breaks perl5 badly.
 
 -- 
 Andrey A. Chernov
 <ache@null.net>
 http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/
 



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