Re: ./configure --with-something fails when LANG=et_EE.UTF-8

[Priit Pääsukene]

2009/4/30 Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>:
> Hello Priit,
>
> please keep the mailing list in Cc:, thanks.

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> * Priit Pääsukene wrote on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:39:11AM CEST:
>> > Which Autoconf version was the configure script created with?
>>
>> not 100% sure, but configure script contains
>
> Just run
>  ./configure --version
>
> it should tell you.

configure generated by autoconf version 2.13
>
>> # libtool.m4 - Configure libtool for the host system. -*-Autoconf-*-
>> ## Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005
>> ## Free Software Foundation, Inc
>>
>> # autoconf 2.13 compatibility
>
> This bit is macro code from Libtool, it doesn't really tell you about
> the Autoconf version you use.
>
>> >> Solution: use [:alpha:] instead a-zA-z in various regular expressions.
>> >
>> > No, sorry; these classes are unfortunately not portable enough yet.  The
>> > configure script already sets LANGUAGE and LC_ALL to sane values.  If
>> > that is not sufficient, then I suppose we need to set LANG, too.  What
>> > system does this happen on, which sed version, and why does it not honor
>> > LC_ALL=C?
>>
>> I experienced it under Ubuntu 9.04, but earlier versions of ubuntu are
>> also affected.
>>
>> bash is:
>> GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
>>
>> from shell the system honors LANG, LANGUAGE and LC_ALL variables:
>>
>> address@hidden:~$ export LANG=et_EE.UTF-8
>> address@hidden:~$ echo abcdefghijklmnopqrsztuvwxy | egrep "^[a-z]+$"
>> address@hidden:~$ export LANG=C
>> address@hidden:~$ echo abcdefghijklmnopqrsztuvwxy | egrep "^[a-z]+$"
>> abcdefghijklmnopqrsztuvwxy
>> address@hidden:~$ set |grep LC_ALL
>> address@hidden:~$ export LANG=et_EE.UTF-8
>> address@hidden:~$ export LC_ALL=C
>> address@hidden:~$ echo abcdefghijklmnopqrsztuvwxy | egrep "^[a-z]+$"
>> abcdefghijklmnopqrsztuvwxy
>> address@hidden:~$
>
> This tests the egrep program, but not really the shell, and neither the
> sed program, which is what caused the issues you reported previously.
>
>> in configure script generated by autoconf, the LANG and LC_ALL
>> variables are set to C, but too late -
>>
>> on line 2066:
>> if test "${LANG+set}"   = set; then LANG=C;   export LANG;   fi
>> if test "${LC_ALL+set}" = set; then LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL; fi
>>
>> first regex comparisions are made on line 50, when LANG/LC_ALL
>> variables are in the default state.
>
> I don't think this particular text ever came from Autoconf at all.
>
>> I'm attaching the generated configure script. hope it helps.
>
> You didn't do that, but that was a good idea.  I'm not too interested in
> the whole configure contents.

cheers,

Priit Pääsukene