On 24 Oct 2011, at 20:36, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > 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.
Squashed into the following changeset, which introduced our README-release.diff file: bug#9845: [PATCH 1/3] maint: use gnulib's maint.mk and support scripts release procedure. And pushed. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org) _______________________________________________ https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
