Perl 5.8.3, locale, and linux

zentara has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, ever since I installed perl5.8.3 from a source tarball, I get these warnings on "make install".


perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_CTYPE = "en_US",
        LANG = "en_US"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_CTYPE = "en_US",
        LANG = "en_US"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
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Everything works alright, but I want to straighten this out. I never had these warnings with earlier Perl versions. What do I need to do?

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

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Re: Perl 5.8.3, locale, and linux by ysth (Canon) on Mar 22, 2004 at 18:05 UTC
See http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/perllocale#LOCALE_PROBLEMS	[reply]
Re: Perl 5.8.3, locale, and linux by zentara (Cardinal) on Mar 22, 2004 at 21:28 UTC
Thanks ysth. I'm just another provincial who can't understand why the whole world dosn't use 7bit ascii :-) Upon further thought, it was working okay when I first installed Perl5.8.3, but started doing it after I upgraded my glibc to version 2.4.3. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]
Re: Perl 5.8.3, locale, and linux by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Mar 22, 2004 at 16:58 UTC
Well, did you check whether the mentioned locale settings are supported and installed? Abigail	[reply]