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-rw-r--r--configure.ac8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 66ef56202d1a..0312d7f07841 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2411,6 +2411,14 @@ if test -z "$BASH"; then
fi
AC_SUBST(BASH)
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([for en_US.utf8 locale])
+if locale -a | egrep -q 'en_US\.(UTF-8|utf8)'; then
+ AC_MSG_RESULT(present)
+else
+ AC_MSG_RESULT(absent)
+ AC_MSG_ERROR([you need en_US.utf8 locale to build])
+fi
+
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for GNU or BSD tar])
for a in $GNUTAR gtar gnutar bsdtar tar /usr/sfw/bin/gtar; do
$a --version 2> /dev/null | egrep "GNU|bsdtar" 2>&1 > /dev/null