setlocale(3) returns NULL and does nothing on Android, no point in giving error message. diff -u -r ../subversion-1.8.5/subversion/libsvn_subr/cmdline.c ./subversion/libsvn_subr/cmdline.c --- ../subversion-1.8.5/subversion/libsvn_subr/cmdline.c 2013-10-10 06:02:04.000000000 +0200 +++ ./subversion/libsvn_subr/cmdline.c 2014-02-12 09:30:54.000000000 +0100 @@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ /* C programs default to the "C" locale. But because svn is supposed to be i18n-aware, it should inherit the default locale of its environment. */ +#ifndef __ANDROID__ if (!setlocale(LC_ALL, "") && !setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "")) { @@ -191,6 +192,7 @@ progname, progname, *env_var, env_val, progname); } } +#endif /* Initialize the APR subsystem, and register an atexit() function to Uninitialize that subsystem at program exit. */