On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Paolo Carlini <paolo.carl...@oracle.com> wrote: > 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? >
I am not familiar with locale. CC to glibc mailing list. -- H.J.
