Question about env. var. LANGUAGE

Question

Hi,
I noticed that when I do:
echo $LANGUAGE
I get:
&LANG
This seems to mess up libtool when building Subversion 1.5.2, so I'm just wondering what &LANG means. When I manually assign en_US to LANGUAGE, libtool is happy. How can I make the LANGUAGE variable assigned to the actual value of LANG on boot up? It seems that setting the locale in rc.conf actually causes the LANG variable to change, so I'm just wondering what LANGUAGE's purpose is and why it has such a funny value.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Big Q: "Why the compiler didnt complain about it?"
it should be "duplicate var declaration" sort of
thing......Bcos one is a local variable and the other is an instance variable. They arent duplicates.
> private String s; // class var declaration, var name is "s"
>
private void f1(){
// another var declaration name "s", why the compiler dont complain about >this!?!
     String s=new String("Hello World!"); As i said b4, this is a local variable. Within the scope of this method, this variable hides the instance var, 's' , to access which, u will have to use this.s
>
private void f2(){
// does this var "s" refers to the class var?Yes.
System.out.println ("s: "+s); // the output is null//that's bcos u havent initialized it anywhere. Local variable have to be compulsorily initialized. Instance variables are initialized to null (if they are Object references)
ram.