Re: syntax-checks with names containing the letter w not invoked

[Jim Meyering]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 2:44 PM Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 2:22 PM Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion
> list <bug-gnulib@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Hi.  I noticed that 'make syntax-check' never ran syntax checks whose
> > name contained 'w' on my local machine, but did so on CICD builds.  I
> > tracked it down due to this:
> >
> > jas@latte:~/src/gsasl$ echo $LANG
> > sv_SE.UTF-8
> > jas@latte:~/src/gsasl$ echo foowbar: | sed -n 's/^\([a-z]*\):/\1/p'
> > jas@latte:~/src/gsasl$ echo foowbar: | LANG=C sed -n 's/^\([a-z]*\):/\1/p'
> > foowbar
> > jas@latte:~/src/gsasl$
> >
> > The following patch (installed) fixes this for me, although I suspect
> > other uses in maint.mk may be affected too.
>
> Hi Simon.
> Happy new year.
> Good catch. We're probably ready to start using character classes like
> [:alnum:], but it's better to fix this to use LC_ALL=C for now. I.e.,
> please use LC_ALL=C, not LANG=C in that patch.

I see you pushed that change, so I've pushed the correction.