Re: two ill effects of maint.mk

[Paul Eggert]

On 6/10/21 8:41 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> The bad effects affect
>    * the developers who work from a git checkout + all users of the tarball
>      for packages that include GNUmakefile and maint.mk in their tarballs,
>      e.g. GNU findutils, GNU guile, GNU gzip, GNU libidn, GNU m4, GNU patch,
>      GNU poke.
>    * the developers who work from a git checkout only, for the other packages
>      that use this module, e.g. GNU emacs, GNU gettext.

As I vaguely recall, that "export LC_ALL = C" was added so that builds 
were reproducible, which is a plus. Perhaps we could try to get the best 
of both worlds, by changing it to set LC_ALL to an English UTF-8 locale 
if available, and the C locale if not. Failing that, I suppose it'd be 
OK to simply remove the line and put up with less-reproducible builds.