On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 09:19:23AM +0200, Vincent Legoll wrote: > >>> Isn't there a more automated way to handle these environment variables? > >> > >> I don't think so: if you are not on GuixSD, you have to set these > >> variables yourself. > > > > Actually, I am on GuixSD. Does that mean there is some automated to do > > this? If I have to set them manually, how do I find out what values to > > set? > > I too, am on guixsd, and I think setting some of those variables by myself > solved a problem running things, but I may misremember... > > So is this actually needed on guixsd or not ? Is there a bug somewhere > making it required when it should not ? How can we be sure, how can we > know which variables should be set ?
Regarding GUIX_LOCPATH, there is a bug with our current glibc/linux package and how it finds locales, mentioned here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-08/msg00165.html
