[Bug libstdc++/21295] Configuring g++ library for various locales ?

[jpr at essi dot fr]

------- Additional Comments From jpr at essi dot fr  2005-05-01 11:21 -------
Subject: Re:  Configuring g++ library for various locales
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pcarlini at suse dot de wrote:

>------- Additional Comments From pcarlini at suse dot de  2005-05-01 10:31 -------
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>>Now I installed also the German locale, and everything seems OK.
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>Excellent!
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>>instead of forcing the German one (which appears to me a little 
>>Süse-oriented ;-)).
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>What if I tell you that the author of that test is Jakub Jelinek, a renowned
>RedHat employee?
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>Anyway, we have already documentation clearly stating that a set of locales
>is *needed* when using the GNU locale model:
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>  http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/install.html#prereqs
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>and of course --enable-clocale itself is completely documented
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>  http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/configopts.html
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>*and reference is made to the above requirements*:
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>  "As part of the configuration process, the "C" library is probed both for
>sufficient vintage, and installed locale data. If either of these elements are
>not present, the C++ locale model default to 'generic.' On glibc-based systems
>of version 2.2.5 and above with installed locale files, 'gnu' is automatically
>selected."
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OK for the documentation, except ... that this is not the one that you 
read when you install gcc from scratch ! Although libstdc++ is now part 
of gcc, there is no link from the files in gcc-xxx/INSTALL to the 
library documentation pages. But you are right, I should have searched 
for this.

Jean-Paul Rigault






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