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gnu make installed with OS language

I installed the latest GNU make to my windows machine.

The installer decided to setup the language as the OS language, which I did not get prompted for. I want it to be english. My OS is in swedish.

I remember I had similar problem with another GNU program (can't recall which), which was solved by adding the env var "lang" with value "c".

How can I switch the language of GNU make to english?

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I am not aware of whether Windows has case sensitive environment variables, but I would expect GNU make to switch to completely switch to US English with LANG=C. If that does not help, try LC_ALL=C, or check whether there is a locale command in the mingw environment which could help show you the exact locale settings.

If you set these environment variables from within the mingw bash shell, make sure that the shell exports those environment variables to the processes it starts (such ask make). I.e. either set the values with export FOO=bar to begin with, or export them with a separate export FOO after having set them with FOO=bar.

(I am presuming mingw behaves like a standard GNU environment when it comes to locales.)

ndim 2010-04-22 11:50:56

Your suggestions on env var did not work. Renaming the `locale` folder under `C:\program\gnuwin32\share\` did work. So removing the language data itself worked, thanks. But I also would like to know where the information to use a language is set? (and why GNU would setup in the OS language automatically, without prompting!)

Gauthier 2010-04-22 11:59:42

You did export the variables, didn't you? Otherwise only the current shell will see the variable, but not the programs that shell starts.

ndim 2010-04-22 12:03:51

I did not find a `locale` command, that is...

Gauthier 2010-04-22 12:05:57

No `locale` command makes sense in a "minimal" environment, but thanks for explicitly confirming that.

ndim 2010-04-22 12:07:54

@ndim: do you mean make sure that `make` knows about the env var? Yes, `LANG=C` has been on my machine for long. Plus I restart the shell every time I change an env var, then try `make` and read the output.

Gauthier 2010-04-22 12:08:03

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