On Tuesday 10 June 2008 14:47:50 NotFound wrote: > (Looks like the second message in this thread was not forwarded to the > list). > > There are several problems related to LANG. As this ticket shows, perl > warns when it has no support for the locale specified, and the > warnings interferes with the output expected by the tests. > > Also several Configure checks for programs can fail because of LANG. > For example, in my system bison is not detected when --maintainer is > used. > > Prefixing the commands with LANG=C is a solution in systems with > sh-like shells, but it will break in others.
Could Configure.pl warn when there's no LANG? How portable is that? -- c
