On 3/8/07, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
begin quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:05:19PM -0800:
> I am trying to port a program, namely "checkinstall", to my 64-bit
> Alpha. Working remotely through ssh.
>
> The OS is the port to Alpha of Fedora Core 5. The compiler is
> gcc version 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)
>
[snip]
> Can anyone think of a reason why gcc was made to do this? Or have
> some idea of when it happened? Or suggest something better in the way
> of a terminal emulator?
What's your locale?
I'd probably start by messing around with that; it's probably
trying to be Unicode on you, 'cuz Just Working isn't nearly so fun
as Forcing Everyone To Be Like I Want Them To.
Got it in one. I should have thought of that myself, but sometimes
the neurons misfire.
$ export LC_ALL=C
makes things much more readable. Of course it doesn't cure the "all
the world's a 32-bit PC" problems, but now I can concentrate on those.
Wonder where locale is officially set. I can always change it in
$HOME/.bash_profile
carl
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