Re: texinfo-6.0.92 make check has 12 FAILs on Solaris10 x86/x64

[Kiyoshi KANAZAWA]

% locale
LANG=ja
LC_CTYPE="ja"
LC_NUMERIC="ja"
LC_TIME="ja"
LC_COLLATE="ja"
LC_MONETARY="ja"
LC_MESSAGES="ja"
LC_ALL=


% locale -a
C
POSIX
iso_8859_1
ja
ja_JP.PCK
ja_JP.UTF-8
ja_JP.eucJP


I used to install everything on my Solaris,
but minimum since I switched the storage from HDD to SSD.

--- Kiyoshi <address@hidden>




----- Original Message -----
> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> To: Kiyoshi KANAZAWA <address@hidden>
> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> Date: 2016/1/23, Sat 02:37
> Subject: Re: texinfo-6.0.92 make check has 12 FAILs on Solaris10 x86/x64
> 
> On 20 January 2016 at 23:04, Kiyoshi KANAZAWA
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>  Hello, Gavin.
>> 
>>  All of the FAILs say: "Couldn't set UTF-8 character type in 
> locale.", such as
>>  ===
>> 
>>  % t/stdout.sh
>>  1d0
>>  < Couldn't set UTF-8 character type in locale.
>> 
>>  ===
>>  log & diffs files are attached.
> 
> Thanks for sending the logs. The XS module is failing to find a locale
> with a UTF-8 character type. I'll try adding a check in the Perl code
> for an available locale before loading the XS module.
> 
> If you posted the output of "% locale" and "% locale -a", it 
> might
> help to work out why no UTF-8 locale is being found.
> 
>>  I wonder why they passed, not failed nor skipped, in texinfo-6.0.
> 
> This code is new since then. It's C code that relies on the locale
> support in the C standard library to process UTF-8.
>