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creek

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[SOLVED] Help with building glibc-wsl

I've been trying to install Arch on WSL using this article, but I'm having trouble building the glibc-wsl AUR package needed.

When I try to build it with makepkg, it spews out endless text and doesn't stop.
When I tried using yaourt, I was told that locale.gen.txt was not found in the build directory and is not a URL, despite it clearly being there.

Last edited by creek (2017-08-19 00:14:25)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Help with building glibc-wsl

That "endless text" is the build output, and given the package there would be a lot of it. In any event, without any output, no-one can help diagnose your issue. Paste commands and ouput:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

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Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Help with building glibc-wsl

As an alternative, you can copy /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive from a current Arch machine to the same location in the WSL installation and it will work fine. You don't have to use glibc-wsl.

creek

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Re: [SOLVED] Help with building glibc-wsl

I'll give the output ASAP but last I tried it went 45 min with non-stop output so I may have to cut it off eventually.

I would use the current arch glibc but the wiki article mentions glibc-wsl is needed to workaround a bug.

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Help with building glibc-wsl

The bug prevents the generation of locales. Copying the file works around it, too.

creek

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Re: [SOLVED] Help with building glibc-wsl

The bug prevents the generation of locales. Copying the file works around it, too.

I'll give it a few more minutes and if it still doesn't work I'll try this.

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Help with building glibc-wsl

Is glibc-wsl still need?  The wiki page linked bug report indicates it is fixed in creators update which the installation section references as a requirement for using wsl.

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Help with building glibc-wsl

It is. Creators Update added a lot, specifically chroot support which makes Arch support possible/simple, but it didn't fix whatever it is that's causing locale generation to fail.

creek

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Re: [SOLVED] Help with building glibc-wsl

Ok copying it from my current installation worked.

Thank you all.