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

[Masami Hiramatsu]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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?

Commented out LC_ALL= as below;

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ NAME = Man-Eating Seals of Antiquity
 MAKEFLAGS += -rR --no-print-directory
 
 # Avoid funny character set dependencies
-LC_ALL=
+#LC_ALL=
 LC_CTYPE=C
 LC_COLLATE=C
 LC_NUMERIC=C

And I've gotten;

---
make O=/home/mhiramat/kbin/2.6.32 all
  Using /home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux-2.6-tip as source for kernel
  GEN     /home/mhiramat/kbin/2.6.32/Makefile
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
  CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
  SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-x86
  CALL    /home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux-2.6-tip/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
make[3]: `scripts/unifdef' is up to date.
  TEST    posttest
Succeed: decoded and checked 887431 instructions
Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready  (#19)
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 434 modules
WARNING: modpost: Found 2 section mismatch(es).
To see full details build your kernel with:
'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y'
---

It seems to be fixed. :-)

Thank you,

> 
> 	-hpa

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx

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