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authorWilliam Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com>2019-03-20T15·18+0000
committerWilliam Carroll <wpcarro@gmail.com>2019-03-20T15·18+0000
commit827448d116a139325b81407da6e95c6855bb5a51 (patch)
tree2b0b992dc314554abd93e5fdc7797f45189fb21d /configs
parent57b675078941ebafea6fd0d9aa52851df8c2095b (diff)
Fix glibc 2.27 issue with Nix
See the comments in .profile for an explanation and a link to a thread that has
a longer-conversation.
Diffstat (limited to 'configs')
-rw-r--r--configs/shared/shell/.profile5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/configs/shared/shell/.profile b/configs/shared/shell/.profile
index e94dd20db6fd..0afaec690134 100644
--- a/configs/shared/shell/.profile
+++ b/configs/shared/shell/.profile
@@ -18,5 +18,10 @@ export FZF_CTRL_T_COMMAND="$FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND"
 export DOTFILES="$HOME/Dropbox/dotfiles"
 export ORG_DIRECTORY="$HOME/Dropbox/org"
 
+# This fixes nixpkgs that rely on glibc-2.27, which allegedly breaks locale
+# issues.
+# See this thread for more details: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/8398
+export LOCALE_ARCHIVE=$(readlink ~/.nix-profile/lib/locale)/locale-archive
+
 # Set environment variables for Nix
 source ~/.nix-profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh