[Slackbuilds-users] zim 0.65 to 0.66

[Brenton Earl]

On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 04:44:52PM -0400, B Watson wrote:
> On 5/2/17, B Watson <yalhcru at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is a UTF-8 locale only required at build time, or is it also required
> > to run the program after it's installed?
> 
> Replying to myself...
> 
> It's required at both build time and run time. It's a silly bug, and
> seems easily fixed (even by a non-Python person like me). Diff is here:
> 
> http://urchlay.naptime.net/~urchlay/src/logger.fix.diff.gz
> 
> In the SlackBuild, apply it like so, just before the 'python setup.py' line:
> 
> zcat $CWD/logger.fix.diff.gz | patch -p1
> 
> I haven't thoroughly tested zim with the patch applied (since I don't
> even know/care how to use it), but at least it builds a package, and
> after installing, the application starts up even with LANG=en_US or
> LANG=C in the environment. Hope it works OK in your testing.

Thanks for the help.  Very much appreciated.

Best Regards,
Brent