Re: [MiNT] ls: error initializing month strings

[Vincent Rivière <vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>]

Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> ls: "error initializing month strings"
>
> When using the ls from gentoo I get the above error-message when not
> using --time-style="iso" or similar. Is this an error of ls or is there
> something missing in my installation? The listing from ls is ok though.

I went into that trouble last summer when trying to compile coreutils 7.5.
Here is my patch, I think it is clean.
This problem should be reported to the coreutils maintainers, if it has not 
already been done.

--
Vincent Rivière

diff -aurN coreutils-7.5/src/ls.c coreutils-7.5-mint-20090821/src/ls.c
--- coreutils-7.5/src/ls.c	2009-08-15 17:25:32.000000000 +0200
+++ coreutils-7.5-mint-20090821/src/ls.c	2009-08-27 00:33:05.312500000 +0200
@@ -2018,10 +2018,12 @@
 		  }
 	      }
 	  }
+#ifdef HAVE_NL_LANGINFO
       /* Note we leave %5b etc. alone so user widths/flags are honored.  */
       if (strstr (long_time_format[0],"%b") || strstr (long_time_format[1],"%b"))
 	if (!abmon_init ())
 	  error (0, 0, _("error initializing month strings"));
+#endif
     }
 
   return optind;