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hello-2.1.91 testsuite failure


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: hello-2.1.91 testsuite failure
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:17:31 +0200
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On MacOS X, with GNU gettext 0.15 installed, in a German environment,
"make; make install; make check" fails:

Making check in tests
make  check-TESTS
PASS: greeting-1
1c1
< Hello, world!
---
> Hallo, Welt!
FAIL: hello-1
1c1
< hello, world
---
> hallo, Welt
FAIL: traditional-1
==================================
2 of 3 tests failed
Please report to address@hidden
==================================
make[2]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
make[1]: *** [check-am] Error 2
make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1

The reason is that the default locale (= the locale in effect when none
of the LC_*, LANG environments are set - see POSIX) is different from the
C locale (see POSIX also). Citing
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html#tag_07_02
 :

  "POSIX Locale

   The POSIX locale can be specified by assigning to the appropriate
   environment variables the values "C" or "POSIX" .

   All implementations shall define a locale as the default locale, to
   be invoked when no environment variables are set, or set to the empty
   string. This default locale can be the POSIX locale or any other
   implementation-defined locale. Some implementations may provide facilities
   for local installation administrators to set the default locale ..."

Here is the fix.

As a side effect, you can see which tests need to run in the C locale and
which don't :-)

tests/ChangeLog:
2006-08-21  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        * greeting-1: Remove locale setting. This test must work in all
        locales.
        * hello-1: Run the test in the C locale, not in the default locale.
        * traditional-1: Likewise.

*** tests/greeting-1.bak        Sun Aug 13 17:01:47 2006
--- tests/greeting-1    Tue Aug 22 02:45:12 2006
***************
*** 9,20 ****
  
  trap 'rm -fr $tmpfiles' 1 2 3 15
  
- LANGUAGE=
- LC_ALL=
- LC_MESSAGES=
- LANG=
- export LANGUAGE LC_ALL LC_MESSAGES LANG
- 
  tmpfiles="greeting-test1.ok"
  cat <<EOF > greeting-test1.ok
  Nothing happens here.
--- 9,14 ----
*** tests/hello-1.bak   Sun Aug 13 16:58:47 2006
--- tests/hello-1       Tue Aug 22 02:45:19 2006
***************
*** 11,17 ****
  trap 'rm -fr $tmpfiles' 1 2 3 15
  
  LANGUAGE=
! LC_ALL=
  LC_MESSAGES=
  LANG=
  export LANGUAGE LC_ALL LC_MESSAGES LANG
--- 11,17 ----
  trap 'rm -fr $tmpfiles' 1 2 3 15
  
  LANGUAGE=
! LC_ALL=C
  LC_MESSAGES=
  LANG=
  export LANGUAGE LC_ALL LC_MESSAGES LANG
*** tests/traditional-1.bak     Sun Aug 13 17:01:24 2006
--- tests/traditional-1 Tue Aug 22 02:45:24 2006
***************
*** 10,16 ****
  trap 'rm -fr $tmpfiles' 1 2 3 15
  
  LANGUAGE=
! LC_ALL=
  LC_MESSAGES=
  LANG=
  export LANGUAGE LC_ALL LC_MESSAGES LANG
--- 10,16 ----
  trap 'rm -fr $tmpfiles' 1 2 3 15
  
  LANGUAGE=
! LC_ALL=C
  LC_MESSAGES=
  LANG=
  export LANGUAGE LC_ALL LC_MESSAGES LANG




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