Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 21:30:02 -0700 (PDT) From: MIHIRA "Sanpei" Yoshiro <sanpei@yy.cs.keio.ac.jp> To: freebsd-ports Subject: Re: ports/3322: setlocale problem in lang/perl5 Message-ID: <199704210430.VAA14357@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/3322; it has been noted by GNATS. From: MIHIRA "Sanpei" Yoshiro <sanpei@yy.cs.keio.ac.jp> To: ache@nagual.ru Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/3322: setlocale problem in lang/perl5 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:14:51 +0900 >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. OK, I hope to append some notice about this warnings to pkg/DESCR file. --- Yoshiro MIHIRA Keio Univ. Japan
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