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Re: (/etc/locale.alias)unicode outfile
On 28 June 2011 01:14, eric wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 00:57 +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>> On 28 June 2011 00:31, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 28 June 2011 00:04, eric wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> You need to configure gcc with --enable-clocale=gnu and reinstall it.
>> >>>
>> >>> That should be the default on GNU/Linux but apparently your system is
>> >>> missing something necessary to support named locales.
>> >>
>> >> so I do
>> >> ./configure --enable-clocale=gnu
>> >
>> > (You obviously didn't read the installation docs, you're not supposed
>> > to run ./configure in the source directory)
>> >
>> > Did it actually enable the gnu locale model? ?You might need to check
>> > $TARGET/libstdc++-v3/config.log or compare which header files are
>> > installed. ?Noone can tell if you have the GNU locale model installed
>> > successfully.
>> >
>> > Or why don't you just install gcc from Ubuntu's package manager?
>> > Surely GCC 4.5 is available?
>> >
>> Actually you probably do have the GNU locale code installed, I missed
>> that you can get the same error from the GNU model:
>>
>> ? void
>> ? locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale(__c_locale& __cloc, const char* __s,
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? __c_locale __old)
>> ? {
>> ? ? __cloc = __newlocale(1 << LC_ALL, __s, __old);
>> ? ? if (!__cloc)
>> ? ? ? {
>> ? ? ? ? // This named locale is not supported by the underlying OS.
>> ? ? ? ? __throw_runtime_error(__N("locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale "
>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? "name not valid"));
>> ? ? ? }
>> ? }
>>
>> So the problem must be with your glibc setup.
>>
>> Is en_US.utf8 listed in /etc/locale.gen? Any other locales?
>> Uncomment the ones you want to support, then try running
>> /usr/sbin/locale-gen as root
>> (I don't know if that's the right way to generate locale data for
>> Ubuntu, you might want to ask on an Ubuntu forum)
>>
>> I've just tried it on a Debian box which only has en_US.utf8 locale
>> data installed, and Axel's test program worked ok and running "./a.out
>> en_US.utf8" wrote to the file unicode.txt, so the problem is not with
>> the code or gcc.
> ----------------------------
> my system don't have /etc/locale.gen
> but
> it have /etc/locale.alias
That isn't the same.
You'll need to find someone who knows how to install localization data
files on Ubuntu.
This isn't a gcc issue.