Re: m4-1.4.17 test-mbrtowc3.sh fails on Solaris without European localization

[Kiyoshi KANAZAWA]

Hello,

I was misunderstanding.

Agree with you that this is a bug of Solaris mbrtowc ().

But, still I can not understand why this issue happen

only in Japanese locale, without installing European localization.

Could you explain me, if you do not mind, please ?

It would be better to keep this Solaris bug detected,

but make it clear it is not a bug of GNU's.

Or make it XFAIL on Solaris (with some localizations).

Otherwise, the same bug report will be sent to many GNU projects.

Regards,

--- Kiyoshi

----- Original Message -----
From: Daiki Ueno <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: m4-1.4.17 test-mbrtowc3.sh fails on Solaris without European localization

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> [adding gnulib]
>
> On 11/06/2014 11:19 AM, Kiyoshi KANAZAWA wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Solaris 10 x86/x64,
>> "test-mbrtowc3.sh" fails if European localization is not installed.
>> It passes with European localization.

I can reproduce it, and it seems to be the same issue as:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2014-10/msg00000.html
which I originally encountered on Solaris 11.
(It's curious that you could work it around by installing European
localization, while the test checks the mbrtowc behavior under Japanese
locale.)

Perhaps it would be good to replace mbrtowc on Solaris, though I have no
idea how to detect the wrong behavior without depending on particular
locale data.  Alternatively, we could simply ignore this test failure on
Solaris, since the tested calling convention is not very common.

Thoughts?

Regards,
--
Daiki Ueno