Locale problems with perl

Frank Steinborn frank at ircnow.org
Wed Dec 14 03:42:41 PST 2005


Erik Norgaard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently (two weeks ago) upgraded my system and all ports. But since 
> then, whenever I install some perl module I get something like this:
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>         LC_ALL = (unset),
>         LANG = "en_GB.ISO_8859-1"
>     are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

It seems that perl has to be build at last. So if you upgrade some
port depending on perl and build perl afterwards, you will run into
this problem. Donk ask me why this is, but it worked for me. 

Frank


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