LC_MESSAGES problem ?

[Philipp Thomas]

* Paul Eggert (eggert@twinsun.com) [20001120 19:01] on libc-alpha:

> Ah yes, GCC.  GCC 2.95.2 has that problem if you configure it with the
> non-default --enable-nls option.  Sorry about that.  I introduced the
> problem when I added the NLS option to GCC.

--enable-nls now *is* the default for anything other then canadian cross.

> GCC ought to get fixed.  That was on my to-do list a while ago, but I
> ran out of time to fix it (sorry, I have only so much volunteer time).

So 

#ifdef HAVE_LC_MESSAGES
  setlocale (LC_MESSAGES, "");
#endif

should be changed to unconditionally use setlocale (LC_ALL, "")? IMHO this
would require carefull review of the GCC code to see that nothing breaks
because of changing collation rules etc.

But as GCC does seem to need a fix, I can do it easily as I now maintain the
i18n specific parts of gcc.

BTW, that's also the reason why I pushed for the inclusion of your and
Martin v. Loewis patches to gettext to go into the official version ( and
because Bruno Haible is comaintainer of gettext I actually succeeded :).
 
> In the meantime, to work around the problem, don't specify enable-nls when
> --configuring GCC.

JFI, at least for the CVS versions of gcc you nowadays have to specify
--disable-nls to not use it.

Philipp

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