Re: Setting locale

Dmitry Goncharov <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:06:03 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.bugs
Message-ID <CAG+Z0CsCWdJ6dbszqOM5bUaQjtY3FPoFLLWLknTav+g-s7mioA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 3:07=E2=80=AFAM Frank Heckenbach
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> When setting the locale via LC_MESSAGES or LC_ALL etc., this affects
> both make's own messages such as "Entering directory" and those from
> commands run by it (here: "total" from ls), e.g.:
...
> Is there a way to change only one of them?

[dgonchar@dgonchar-7cefc2 test]# cat makefile
export LC_MESSAGES=3Dde_DE
test:; @ls -l
[dgonchar@dgonchar-7cefc2 test]# make -C .
make: Entering directory '/root/gmake/test'
insgesamt 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 dgonchar root 40 Jul 10 13:04 makefile
make: Leaving directory '/root/gmake/test'
[dgonchar@dgonchar-7cefc2 test]#

regards, Dmitry