Re: Setting locale

On Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:06:03 -0400
Dmitry Goncharov <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?
> > I want make's messages always in English
>=20
> [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]#

In addition to Dmitrys excellent answer, if you do not want to modify the
Makefile and still want to be able to choose language with LC_MESSAGES when
running make... If you really want makes messages to _allways_ be in enghli=
sh
no matter what, then you can  remove all those make.mo files from your syst=
em.
When no make.mo file is found in a directory matching your choosen locale m=
ake
will fall back to english.

regards Henrik