Re: [PATCH] explicitly set LANG to 'C' in for guilt run-tests

From: Scott Moser <smoser@brickies.net>
Date: Sep 29, 2008, 21:01 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0809291700130.935@brickies>
In-Reply-To: <20080929204958.GD31590@josefsipek.net>

On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Josef Jeff Sipek wrote:

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> > If I'm not mistaken, $LANG is used as the ultimate fallback, while LC_ALL is
> > the one that overrides all others, so you probably want to set LC_ALL. I'm
> > unsure which off the specific ones would apply here, but very likely it's
> > LC_COLLATE. In other words, if LC_ALL is set, it is used, otherwise if
> > LC_COLLATE is set it is used, otherwise if LANG is set, it is used,
> > otherwise, "POSIX" is used.
>
> IIRC, my devel system has all of them set to UTF8, _except_ LC_COLLATE (I
> like the case sensitive sort of filenames in ls(1)) which I have set to "C".
> So chances are that the minimum required is LC_COLLATE=C, but overriding
> everything might be safer overall.
>

Yeah, LC_ALL I sprobably correct. I'm not very "LANG" aware at all. I just noticed that test 052 didn't run on my system, and figured out that was why.

You want a re-send of this patch with LC_ALL ? Or do you want to make the modification yourself and apply?

Scott