Build xindy in the POSIX locale, thanks to Pierre and Bruce for help in debugging what I miscategorised as an i686 problem.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@15397 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>January 26th, 2015</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Use the POSIX locale to build xindy. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;5926">#5926</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[pierre] - Update to OpenJDK-1.8.0.31. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;6062">#6062</ulink>.</para>

pst/typesetting/xindy.xml

@@ -38,13 +38,6 @@
       generate indexing information.
     </para>
 
-    <note>
-      <para>
-        At the moment, this works on x86_64 but does not work on 32-bit x86.
-        Help in debugging this will be welcomed.
-      </para>
-    </note>
-
     &lfs76_checked;
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
@@ -104,13 +97,18 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>export TEXARCH=$(uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/' -e 's/$/-linux/') &amp;&amp;
 
+SAVE_LC_ALL=$LC_ALL &amp;&amp;
+LC_ALL=POSIX &amp;&amp;
+
 ./configure --prefix=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;              \
             --bindir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/bin/$TEXARCH \
             --datarootdir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;         \
             --includedir=/usr/include                         \
             --libdir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist   \
             --mandir=/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist/doc/man &amp;&amp;
-make</userinput></screen>
+make &amp;&amp;
+LC_ALL=$SAVE_LC_ALL &amp;&amp; unset SAVE_LC_ALL
+</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>
       This package does not have a testsuite.
@@ -127,6 +125,16 @@ make</userinput></screen>
   <sect2 role="commands">
     <title>Command Explanations</title>
 
+    <para>
+      <parameter>SAVE_LC_ALL=...</parameter>: with the current version of
+      <application>coreutils</application> it is essential to build
+      <application>xindy</application> in the POSIX (or C) locale because in a
+      UTF-8 locale the file <filename>latin.xdy</filename> will contain only a
+      heading and then a line '<literal>Binary file (standard input)
+      matches</literal>' instead of the many lines of
+      <application>lisp</application> merge-rule commands it ought to contain.
+    </para>
+
     <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/tex-prefix.xml"/>