Re: two ill effects of maint.mk

[Paul Eggert]

On 6/10/21 10:12 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > 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).

True.

How about this idea instead? Have the GNUmakefile code run the 'locale' 
command and include its output in the 'make' output. That way, the 
'make' transcript would indicate this particular detail of the test 
environment.