Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes: > Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> writes: > >> Gábor Boskovits <boskov...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> It seems, that we have a breakage in current core-updates. m4, gettext, and >>> at least a few other packages fail to build. >> >> Hello! >> >> The problem is that the glibc version string is used a couple of places >> to determine where locales are found. >> >> The attached patch fixes it, though I'm not sure if it's the best >> approach. Thoughts? > > Thank you. > > I find it a little ugly to replace the exact version string with only > the major+minor version substring. Why can’t we use the full version > string?
I think it's because "glibc-versioned-locpath.patch" uses the libc VERSION constant. Perhaps we could substitute glibcs "version.h", but that might break other things. Or introduce a different variable, say GUIX_GLIBC_VERSION, and use that. WDYT?
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