On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 10:38:26AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > Source: ncurses > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Hi, > > While working on the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed > that ncurses could not be built reproducibly. > > We have found that MKterminfo.sh included a trailing space in one > build test but not in the other. It is not quite clear to me what > triggers this behaviour, but there is a note claiming it to be the > locale difference (one build is in C and the other in a French UTF-8 > locale).
If it is a locale issue, then ensuring that the script uses POSIX locale will fix that. The script does that already. Perhaps the bug is not in ncurses, but in one of the tools used -- some clarification would be helpful. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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