[Nix-dev] Boost and Locale issues

[roconnor at theorem.ca]

I've almost completed a package for bitcoin, but I'm having a locale issue

$ result/bin/bitcoin
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
   what():  locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
Aborted

However the programs run correctly in an environment where LANG=C or 
LC_ALL=C.

I *think* this is a boost related issue.

I can probably work around this by wrapping the executable to set the 
environment beforehand, but I'd rather fix the actual problem rather than 
hiding it.  This might mean patching boost?

Anyhow, I know next to nothing about locale issues and absolutely nothing 
about how locale issues interact with NixOS.  Any tips?

viric claims that freecad has the same problem.

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