*IMPORTANT* Unset LANG and other locales before upgrading

paranouei

I had problems during step3 upgrading from 1.2 to 1.4. Perl failed, and after some research, I found out that some builds may fail if you have LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES set to your language.

You can unset them or set them to C. After that, Perl build went fine.

A nice trick Bandit2 told me is to do it in /root/.bashrc so you never forget again

rac · Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 12:24 am Post subject:

Thanks a lot for posting this. Hopefully it will help steveb, among others. I think it will reach a better audience in Portage & Programming than in Installing Gentoo, although I think I'll leave a shadow topic here for a while, in case some people view upgrading as a sort of a new installation.
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steveb · Advocate Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 4564

any way of enabling this automaticly in the ebuild process? so other ppl can profit from this experiance?

cheers

Steve

kemical · Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 9:33 am Post subject:

yea upgrading to 1.4 killed my system.

oh well a fresh install is better than no gentoo
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librarob · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 3 Location: Canada

anyone done an ebuild for perl5.8.0 yet? it's tagged as stable on cpan.org

cheers,