Re: texinfo 6.1, 6.3: warning messages in no-locale setups

[Gavin Smith]

On 25 January 2017 at 05:03, Michael Deutschmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> On my system, a vanilla build of texinfo 6.3 frequently outputs a message:
>
> sh: 1: locale: not found
> Couldn't set UTF-8 character type in locale.
>
> In turn, this causes a dozen "make check" tests to FAIL.
>
> The problem is one chunk of code that badly wants to find and change to a
> locale with the wanted character set.  This is futile on my system as I
> am running uClibc with locales compiled out.  There is no locale utility
> and setlocale() is a constant function.

I've deleted the error message "Couldn't set UTF-8 character type in
locale." because it's easy to do so. I think the tests will still fail
on your system with the error message from "sh" ("locale: not found")
because I think that popen doesn't do anything with standard error. I
haven't researched how to fix this; suggestions welcome.

Presumably Perl has its own UTF-8 support and doesn't need to use that
of libc, so the fallback module can still work correctly.