Re: two ill effects of maint.mk

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Paul,

> > Can someone please deal with this? Simon? Akim? Berny? Not always me :-)
> 
> Something like the attached patch perhaps? (I haven't tested or 
> installed it.)

Thanks for working on this. Yes, this will revert the ill effects on
"make" and "make check".

> --- a/build-aux/gendocs.sh
> +++ b/build-aux/gendocs.sh
> @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ scriptversion=2021-01-01.00
>  # - images are not imported in the source tarball.  All the needed
>  #   formats (PDF, PNG, etc.) should be included.
>  
> +export LC_ALL=C
> +
>  prog=`basename "$0"`
>  srcdir=`pwd`
 
To make it work in other shells than bash-compatible shells, I think
it's better to write

  LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL

> --- a/build-aux/gnu-web-doc-update
> +++ b/build-aux/gnu-web-doc-update
> @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ VERSION=2021-01-09.09; # UTC
>  # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>  # along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>  
> +export LC_ALL=C
> +
>  ME=$(basename "$0")
>  warn() { printf '%s: %s\n' "$ME" "$*" >&2; }
>  die() { warn "$*"; exit 1; }

Likewise.

> --- a/build-aux/vc-list-files
> +++ b/build-aux/vc-list-files
> @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ scriptversion=2018-03-07.03; # UTC
>  # If there's an argument, it must be a single, "."-relative directory name.
>  # cvsu is part of the cvsutils package: https://www.red-bean.com/cvsutils/
>  
> +export LC_ALL=C
> +
>  postprocess=
>  case $1 in
>    --help) cat <<EOF

Likewise.

Similarly in many places of maint.mk.

> @@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ ifeq ($(VC),$(GIT))
>    this-vc-tag = v$(VERSION)
>    this-vc-tag-regexp = v$(VERSION_REGEXP)
>  else
> -  tag-package = $(shell echo "$(PACKAGE)" | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')
> +  tag-package = $(shell export LC_ALL=C; \
> +               echo "$(PACKAGE)" | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')
>    tag-this-version = $(subst .,_,$(VERSION))
>    this-vc-tag = $(tag-package)-$(tag-this-version)
>    this-vc-tag-regexp = $(this-vc-tag)

Since 'echo' is not locale dependent, it's easier to write this as

  tag-package = $(shell echo "$(PACKAGE)" | LC_ALL=C tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')

> @@ -1652,6 +1669,7 @@ update-copyright-env ?=
>  # in the file .x-update-copyright.
>  .PHONY: update-copyright
>  update-copyright:
> +     export LC_ALL=C;                                                 \
>       $(AM_V_GEN)$(GREP) -l -w Copyright                               \
>         $$(export VC_LIST_EXCEPT_DEFAULT=COPYING && $(VC_LIST_EXCEPT)) \
>         | $(update-copyright-env) xargs $(srcdir)/$(_build-aux)/$@

The $(AM_V_GEN) is the thing that turns off verbosity. Therefore the
added statement should go after it, not before it.

> diff --git a/build-aux/gnupload b/build-aux/gnupload
> index e7822aed7..f70fe330a 100755
> --- a/build-aux/gnupload
> +++ b/build-aux/gnupload
> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ scriptversion=2021-04-11.09; # UTC
>  # The master copy of this file is maintained in the gnulib Git repository.
>  # Please send bug reports and feature requests to bug-gnulib@gnu.org.
>  
> +export LC_ALL=C
>  set -e
>  
>  GPG=gpg

gnupload works fine in non-English locales. (I use it occasionally in German
locale.) Therefore this part can be omitted.

Bruno