Re: syntax-checks with names containing the letter w not invoked

[Jim Meyering]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 2:22 PM Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion
list <bug-gnulib@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi.  I noticed that 'make syntax-check' never ran syntax checks whose
> name contained 'w' on my local machine, but did so on CICD builds.  I
> tracked it down due to this:
>
> jas@latte:~/src/gsasl$ echo $LANG
> sv_SE.UTF-8
> jas@latte:~/src/gsasl$ echo foowbar: | sed -n 's/^\([a-z]*\):/\1/p'
> jas@latte:~/src/gsasl$ echo foowbar: | LANG=C sed -n 's/^\([a-z]*\):/\1/p'
> foowbar
> jas@latte:~/src/gsasl$
>
> The following patch (installed) fixes this for me, although I suspect
> other uses in maint.mk may be affected too.

Hi Simon.
Happy new year.
Good catch. We're probably ready to start using character classes like
[:alnum:], but it's better to fix this to use LC_ALL=C for now. I.e.,
please use LC_ALL=C, not LANG=C in that patch.

Thanks,
Jim