Re: [PATCH, libstdc++] Fix 22_locale/time_get/get_weekday/char/38081-[12].cc tests for glibc 2.17

[Paolo Carlini <paolo dot carlini at oracle dot com>]

Hi,

On 02/11/2013 04:33 PM, Julian Brown wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems that glibc 2.17 changes the abbreviated names of weekdays for
> "ru_RU" locales by removing an extraneous ".", as described in:
>
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10873
>
> An earlier patch (circa glibc 2.14) changed (IIUC!) archaic/unusual
> three-letter abbreviations to more-common two-letter abbreviations, but
> included dots after each weekday name, which was apparently still wrong.
> But, the two tests of this feature in the libstdc++ testsuite expect
> those dots to be present, so they fail.
>
> So, the attached patch simply removes the expectation that dots are
> present in the abbreviated names from the libstdc++ tests in question,
> if the glibc version in use is recent enough.
>
> The tests pass (with a current gcc, trunk eglibc) with the attached
> patch, and fail (for me) without it (cross-testing to ARM Linux, for
> no particular reason). OK to apply?
I think it's Ok, yes. Thanks. However, I would appreciate if somebody 
with a glibc 2.17 system at hand could double check. Maybe HJ?

Thanks,
Paolo.