On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:11:50 +0200, Abe Timmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Abe Timmerman wrote:
> > Abe Timmerman wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > That doesn't look good :(
> >
> > $ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 ./perl -e '1'
> > perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> > LC_ALL = "en_US.UTF-8",
> > LANG = (unset)
> > are supported and installed on your system.
> > perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> >
> > I reconfigured with:
> > -A append:ccflags='-DNO_LOCALE_COLLATE -DNO_LOCALE_NUMERIC'
> >
> > now:
> >
> > $ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 PERLUNICODE="" ./perl harness
> >
> > Yields the much better:
> >
> > Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail List of Failed
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ../lib/locale.t 117 10 2-9 15 54
> > uni/overload.t 8 2048 208 8 34 38 40 44 46 50 52 56
> > 71 tests and 889 subtests skipped.
> > Failed 2/1461 test scripts. 18/184551 subtests failed.
> > Files=1461, Tests=184551, 1803 wallclock secs (684.07 cusr + 129.90 csys =
> > 813.97 CPU)
> > Failed 2/1461 test programs. 18/184551 subtests failed.
> >
> >
> > Looking at lib/locale.t, it looks like tainting is not turned on for the
> > LC_CTYPE goup of functions.
> >
> > Looking at t/uni/overload.t, it looks like netbsd also has a broken
> > 'en_GB.ISO8859-1', I can send a patch to add netbsd to the list.
> >
> >
> > Now is it useful to try and make the locale work on NetBSD, without
> > LC_COLLATE
> > and LC_NUMERIC?
> >
> > If so, is there a way to add those NO_LOCALE_xxx macro's only for the
> > compilation of locale.c (by default on NetBSD)?
>
> The attached patch:
>
> * adds $locale_cflags and $sv_cflags to hints/netbsd.sh with
> - -DNO_LOCALE_COLLATE and -DNO_LOCALE_NUMERIC
>
> * adds netbsd to the list of osses that have a broken 'en_GB.ISO8859-1'
Thanks, applied with one extra line of comment as change #31942
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