Re: [tip:x86/urgent] Makefile: set LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_NUMERICto C

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Dec 17 2009 - 18:38:18 EST


On 12/17/2009 03:34 PM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 12/17/2009 02:09 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>>
>>> This is IMO -next fodder and not urgent stuff.
>>> In the distant past something similar caused us troubles.
>>>
>>> I assume that the patch posted by Roland fixes
>>> the relevant troubles with the awk script and that
>>> this patch is just for consistency.
>>> So in other words stuff for -next and not -rc1.
>>>
>>
>> No: the patch Roland posted fixes the problems with non-POSIX-compliant
>> awk (e.g. mawk), but it in turn requires this patch in order to not
>> break on non-C-locale-default systems (which are most systems nowadays.)
>
> Right, gawk requires locale setting.
>
> btw, something went wrong with it...
>
> when I ran with LC_ALL=C, it shows message correctly.
>
> Maybe, "LC_ALL=" line broke it?
>

What happens if you remove that part?

-hpa
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