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void.pointer

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Registered: 2008-07-30

Posts: 239

Question about env. var. LANGUAGE

Hi,

I noticed that when I do:
echo $LANGUAGE

I get:
&LANG

This seems to mess up libtool when building Subversion 1.5.2, so I'm just wondering what &LANG means. When I manually assign en_US to LANGUAGE, libtool is happy. How can I make the LANGUAGE variable assigned to the actual value of LANG on boot up? It seems that setting the locale in rc.conf actually causes the LANG variable to change, so I'm just wondering what LANGUAGE's purpose is and why it has such a funny value.

Thanks.