Cannot locate xindy module for language

[Álvaro Morán]

When running the command makeglossaries with the xindy option

$ makeglossaries ManualUsuario
defined(%hash) is deprecated at /usr/bin/makeglossaries line 288.
 (Maybe you should just omit the defined()?)
added glossary type 'main' (glg,gls,glo)
added glossary type 'acronym' (alg,acr,acn)
xindy -L spanish -C utf8 -I xindy -M "ManualUsuario" -t "ManualUsuario.alg" -o "ManualUsuario.acr" "ManualUsuario.acn"
Cannot locate xindy module for language spanish in codepage utf8.
Retrying using default codepage.
xindy -L spanish -I xindy -M "ManualUsuario" -t "ManualUsuario.alg" -o "ManualUsuario.acr" "ManualUsuario.acn"
Cannot locate xindy module for language spanish.
Retrying with -L general
xindy -L general -I xindy -M "ManualUsuario" -t "ManualUsuario.alg" -o "ManualUsuario.acr" "ManualUsuario.acn"
Call to xindy failed (errno=256):
/usr/lib/clisp-2.49/base/lisp.run: initialization file `/usr/lib/xindy/xindy.mem' was not created by this version of CLISP runtime

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xindy - 2.4-1.2

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xindy (2.4-1.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * debian/control:
    - Add texlive-lang-greek build dependency. Seems no longer
      pulled automatically by TeXLive (Closes: #713496).
    - Bump Standards Version. No changes needed.
    - (lintian vcs-git-uses-invalid-user-uri): Use recommended URI for git
      anonymous access.
    - (lintian dm-upload-allowed-is-obsolete): Remove obsolete
      "DM-Upload-Allowed" field.
  * debian/xindy-rules.docs: Do not install NEWS. It is installed as
    changelog by debian/rules.
  * debian/rules: Use hardened build-flags.
  * Be kind to Ubuntu launchpad: These were fixed in fixed in 2.4-1.1 NMU
    - (LP: #871588).
    - (LP: #939545).

 -- Agustin Martin Domingo <email address hidden> Wed, 26 Jun 2013 18:25:19 +0200

[Benji (benjim)]

The problem is, that xindy looks for those files:
utf8-lang.xdy
utf8-test.xdy
utf8.xdy

A pretty easy (and in my opinion uncritical) fix is the following:
cd /usr/share/xindy/lang/spanish
sudo su
ln -s modern-utf8-lang.xdy utf8-lang.xdy
ln -s modern-utf8-test.xdy utf8-testg.xdy
ln -s modern-utf8.xdy utf8.xdy

(you can lso choose traditional or latin, whatever fits best).