[[Moving to libtool list][ Chaps,
On 21 Oct 2011, at 19:02, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > On 21 Oct 2011, at 16:11, Bruno Haible wrote: >>> Set a neutral locale for rolling the release tarballs. >> >> I disagree with this advice. Yes, the first time you run a "make distcheck" >> in a German locale, 'makeinfo' may put German strings into your formatted >> documentation. But "make distcheck" ought to work for any user as well >> as for yourself. And many users will run "make check" in German, Japanese, >> or Chinese locales. Therefore you should better fix the Makefile problems >> that you have in this area, not push them under the rug. > > Git blame puts the introduction of the LC_ALL line to our release checklist > here (which doesn't shed any light on it unfortunately): > > commit 2db08b36f61c63db299b1387fa974668d05465d3 > Author: Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> > Date: Tue Apr 26 11:55:12 2005 +0000 > > * HACKING, THANKS: Updated. > > I assume Ralf did this so that we can be certain of not accidentally uploading > a release with German localisation strings in it, and/or because some of our > test-cases break in another locale. I haven't looked any deeper than that > tho' > so I'm quite happy to leave it in gl/top/README-release.diff until I've had > the > time to investigate properly. I've just successfully bootstrapped and distchecked Libtool from a fresh clone of the git repo, all with LC_ALL=zh_CN (which is a locale I have installed on my machine according to `locale -a') in the environment. Bruno is correct, that (apart from having to deal with gpg prompting me in Chinese) this creates a distribution tarball identical to the one built with LC_ALL=C in the environment, both of which pass the complete testsuite. I'll remove the following line from the libtool README-release in 72 hours unless someone tells why I shouldn't do that: * Make sure your locale is sane, e.g. by exporting LC_ALL=C. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org) _______________________________________________ https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
