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Re: contrib/gcc_update in non-english locales


On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 04/21/2010 06:25 PM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> > Hello All
> >
> > The contrib/gcc_update script does not seem to work in non-english
> > locales (e.g. in a French UTF8 locale on Linux).
>
> How so?

Because it doesn't set LC_ALL=C LANG=C?

> > The following patch (from the MELT branch) could fix it
>
> No, it would break everything.  See "Non-bugs" section of the sed manual and
> "Character Classes and Bracket Expressions" section of the grep manual.  See
> also all occurrences of "LC_" in the autoconf manual.

Did you say that because the patch was backwards and seemingly
removed LC_ALL=C LANG=C?  (And the comment had out-of-line
formatting double "#", wasn't GNU-style; sentence starting with
capital letter, ending with full stop. :)

Basile, always "diff -up old new".

brgds, H-P


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