The following reply was made to PR pkg/29613; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Hanno 'Rince' Wagner <wagner@rince.de>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/29613: irssi won't compile with latest perl and USE_PERL
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 22:12:42 +0100

 Apparently having set the LANG-Variable other than C is bringing
 strange phenomenons:
 
 here the output of "make" with some more lines:
 
 creating libfe_perl_static.la 
 (cd .libs && rm -f libfe_perl_static.la && ln -s ../libfe_perl_static.la libfe_perl_static.la)
 for dir in common irc ui textui; do  cd $dir &&  if [ ! -f Makefile ]; then  /home/NetBSD/pkgsrc/chat/irssi/work.i386/.tools/bin/perl Makefile.PL ;  fi && (/usr/bin/make CC="cc" CCFLAGS="-f no-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-netbsd-thread-multi/CORE -O2 -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/include -Wall"  || /usr/bin/make CC="cc" CCFLAGS="-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-netbsd-thread-multi/CORE -O2 -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/include -Wall" ) &&  cd ..;  done
 perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
 perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
         LC_ALL = (unset),
         LANG = "De_DE"
     are supported and installed on your system.
 perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
 Unable to find a perl 5 (by these names:
 /home/NetBSD/pkgsrc/chat/irssi/work.i386/.tools/bin/perl perl perl5 perl5.8.6 miniperl, in these dirs: /home/NetBSD/pkgsrc/chat/irssi/work.i386/.wrapper/bin /home/NetBSD/pkgsrc/chat/irssi/work.i386/.buildlink/bin /home/NetBSD/pkgsrc/chat/irssi/work.i386/.tools/bin /home/NetBSD/pkgsrc/chat/irssi/work.i386/.gcc/bin /usr/pkg/bin/usr/bin /bin /usr/pkg/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/pkg/java/jdk-1.1.8/bin/usr/pkg/bin /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/pkg/bin)
 Writing Makefile for Irssi
 0: not found
 *** Error code 127
 
 Stop.
 make: stopped in
 /home/NetBSD/pkgsrc/chat/irssi/work.i386/irssi-0.8.9/src/perl/common
 0: not found
 *** Error code 127
 
 [..]
 
 setting a "setenv LANG C" does the trick then
 
 Ciao, Hanno
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