On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:01:25PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote:
> > The compiled binary seems to have some locale
> > problem since the screen display is messed up.
>
> There is an error message: 'locale en_US could not be set."
This one can be safely ignored. There is no locale support with mingw
and cygwin. This is a patch that I apply to src/messages.C to avoid
that bogus warning:
--- src/messages.C.orig 2006-08-17 17:36:46.000000000 +0200
+++ src/messages.C 2006-09-06 19:16:44.000000000 +0200
@@ -126,10 +126,10 @@
#endif
// setlocale fails (returns NULL) if the corresponding locale
// is not installed.
- // On windows (mingw) it always returns NULL.
+ // On windows (mingw and cygwin) it always returns NULL.
// Since this method gets called for every translatable
// buffer string like e.g. "Figure:" we warn only once.
-#ifndef _WIN32
+#if !defined(_WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__)
static bool warned = false;
if (!warned && !lc_msgs) {
warned = true;
--
Enrico
