Locale stuff (was Re: Cannot build gcc-3_2-branch)

[Greg Schafer <gschafer at zip dot com dot au>]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 12:52:39PM -0500, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> 
> > Where did I go wrong? Why is it building stuff in testsuite when I
> > haven't kicked off "make check" yet?
> 
> The testsuite directory builds two things with "make all." One is a
> library of support routines, and the other is an application used in
> library ABI checking.
> 
> I cannot reproduce your error.

Ok, as pointed out by Jakub, it seems that --enable-clocale=generic is
broken.

Which begs the question, which locale model should we be using on a
modern linux system? I would think "gnu" after reading the docs.

But the configure script currently checks for the presence of the
"de_DE" locale. If you don't have this locale installed, then you end
up with "generic" as your locale model. This happened to me, hence why
I got bitten.

Or should we always be passing --enable-clocale=gnu when building?

What is the difference anyway? Is the ABI affected?

Thanks
Greg