HELP! longstanding abi_check failures on i686 & x86_64 (linux-gnu)

[Paolo Carlini]

Hi,
> Perhaps the abi_check could be preceded by a different test, that would
> test for the presence of needed locales.
>
> A test run might then look like
>
> Running target unix
> FAIL: locales_installed (some locales are not installed, abi_check will fail)
> FAIL: abi_check
> XPASS: 26_numerics/headers/cmath/c99_classification_macros.cc
>
> Another possibility is to break abi_check into two tests, one of which
> checks everything other than locales, one of which checks everything that
> depends on locales.
>   
Thanks for the suggestions. Note, however, that the user may decide to 
use a generic locale model also when the localedata is available, that 
is abi_check should really check that the actual, selected locale model 
!= locale model used for generating the baseline (the GNU one). Also, as 
I said, abi_check can fail for many other reasons... in general, 
abi_check should really preliminarily make sure somehow that the 
configuration actually resulting from configure is consistent (from the 
ABI-compatibility point of view at least) with the one used when the 
baseline has been generated.

Paolo.