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+/* This function builds just the `lib/locale/locale-archive' file from
+   Glibc and nothing else.  If `allLocales' is true, all supported
+   locales are included; otherwise, just the locales listed in
+   `locales'.  See localedata/SUPPORTED in the Glibc source tree for
+   the list of all supported locales:
+   http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/localedata/SUPPORTED?cvsroot=glibc
+*/
+
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, allLocales ? true, locales ? ["en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8"] }:
+
+let build = import ./common.nix; in
+
+build null {
+  name = "glibc-locales";
+
+  inherit fetchurl stdenv;
+  installLocales = true;
+
+  builder = ./locales-builder.sh;
+
+  # Awful hack: `localedef' doesn't allow the path to `locale-archive'
+  # to be overriden, but you *can* specify a prefix, i.e. it will use
+  # <prefix>/<path-to-glibc>/lib/locale/locale-archive.  So we use
+  # $TMPDIR as a prefix, meaning that the locale-archive is placed in
+  # $TMPDIR/nix/store/...-glibc-.../lib/locale/locale-archive.
+  buildPhase =
+    ''
+      mkdir -p $TMPDIR/"$(dirname $(readlink -f $(type -p localedef)))/../lib/locale"
+
+      # Hack to allow building of the locales (needed since glibc-2.12)
+      sed -i -e "s,^LOCALEDEF=.*,LOCALEDEF=localedef --prefix=$TMPDIR," -e \
+          /library-path/d ../glibc-2*/localedata/Makefile
+      ${if allLocales then "" else
+          "echo SUPPORTED-LOCALES=\"${toString locales}\" > ../glibc-2*/localedata/SUPPORTED"}
+
+      make localedata/install-locales \
+          localedir=$out/lib/locale \
+    '';
+
+  installPhase =
+    ''
+      mkdir -p "$out/lib/locale"
+      cp -v "$TMPDIR/$NIX_STORE/"*"/lib/locale/locale-archive" "$out/lib/locale"
+    '';
+
+  meta.description = "Locale information for the GNU C Library";
+}