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Re: two ill effects of maint.mk
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: two ill effects of maint.mk |
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Thu, 10 Jun 2021 19:12:59 +0200 |
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Paul Eggert wrote:
> As I vaguely recall, that "export LC_ALL = C" was added so that builds
> were reproducible, which is a plus.
People who want reproducible builds can run
LC_ALL make && LC_ALL make check
if they like to. This is no reason to significantly reduce the test suite's
effectiveness for *all* users.
> 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.
This still would prevent the GNU m4 test suite from producing a test failure
for the aforementioned m4-1.4.19 regression (because the English locale
has less variation regarding the decimal separator than the whole set
of possible locales).
Bruno
Re: two ill effects of maint.mk, Bruno Haible, 2021/06/20