On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Matthew Burgess<matt...@linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Following a thread on blfs-support[0], it looks like the i18n > patch for Coreutils causes a problem during compilation of > Dash in BLFS. The attached builtins file produces the following > output when we compile Coreutils with the i18n patch: > > $ LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > $ sort -u -k 3,3 builtins > 0 . -s dotcmd > > $ LANG=en_GB > $ sort -u -k 3,3 builtins > 21 local -a localcmd > 14 export -as exportcmd > 3 alias -au aliascmd > 7 chdir cdcmd > 10 echo echocmd > 18 hash hashcmd > 22 printf printfcmd > 23 pwd pwdcmd > 0 . -s dotcmd > 2 [ testcmd > 33 type typecmd > 4 bg -u bgcmd > 34 ulimit ulimitcmd > > If the i18n patch isn't applied, then the LANG setting has no > effect on sort's output, always outputting the correct data as per > the en_GB listing above. > > So, what do we want to do? Just remove the sort-related hunks of the > i18n patch, drop the patch altogether, or try and fix this bug? I > can easily do either of the 1st 2, but trying to fix the bug is beyond > my limited C abilities.
I thought the mk_builtins script (or whatever it's called) runs sort with LC_COLLATE=C? Can you check (this came up before because I was building with en_US.UTF-8 and the sorting was wrong)? The whole operation is pretty simple. There are a set of shell builtins in a text file, and the script sorts it and creates a binary tree in a .h suitable to be built into dash. At least, that was the problem before. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
