R help - Jul 1998 - R-beta: perl warnings during make

During the make of the current intermediate patch R-release, 
I get numerous warnings like this:

data                              text    html    latex
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_CTYPE = "iso-8859-1",
        LANG = (unset)
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

I never had this happen before.  What has happened, and how to fix?
Thanks very much for any help.
(Apparently I need to make some locale settings but I have no idea what
that means nor how to do it.  I am running Slackware 3.4.0)

Bill Simpson

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>>>>> On Mon, 6 Jul 1998 13:58:42 -0500 (CDT),
>>>>> Bill Simpson (BS) wrote:
BS> During the make of the current intermediate patch R-release, 
BS> I get numerous warnings like this:

BS> data                              text    html    latex
BS> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
BS> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
BS>         LC_ALL = (unset),
BS>         LC_CTYPE = "iso-8859-1",
BS>         LANG = (unset)
BS>     are supported and installed on your system.
BS> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

BS> I never had this happen before.  What has happened, and how to fix?

I have never seen warnings like the above (I'm using Debian 1.3). Did
you change anything in your perl/linux installation, or was the only
change in the version of R? Which version of R was the last you
used that built without the above warnings?

Best,

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