Linux standalone: Set LOCPATH=/dev/null to work around https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7695

This prevents localization from working, but git-annex is not localized anyway.

debian/changelog

@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ git-annex (5.2015022) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     since in this case there must be staged changes in the index
     (if there is anything to unannex), and the unannex code path
     needs to run with a clean index.
+  * Linux standalone: Set LOCPATH=/dev/null to work around
+    https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7695
+    This prevents localization from working, but git-annex
+    is not localized anyway.
 
  -- Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>  Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:16:03 -0400
 

doc/bugs/git-annex_on_NAS_eats_all_memory.mdwn

@@ -33,3 +33,7 @@ and the current bundle on the NAS
 
 # End of transcript or log.
 """]]
+
+> Went ahead with setting LOCPATH=/dev/null in runshell, so it won't
+> run into whatever problem with the locales is causing it to hit this GHC
+> bug. [[done]] (I hope) --[[Joey]]

standalone/linux/skel/runshell

@@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ export ORIG_GCONV_PATH
 GCONV_PATH=$base/$(cat $base/gconvdir)
 export GCONV_PATH
 
+# workaround for https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7695
+LOCPATH=/dev/null
+export LOCPATH
+
 ORIG_GIT_EXEC_PATH="$GIT_EXEC_PATH"
 export ORIG_GIT_EXEC_PATH
 GIT_EXEC_PATH=$base/git-core