In a gettext build on Solaris 8, I'm seeing 5 test failures:
FAIL: test-mbrtowc4.sh
FAIL: test-mbsrtowcs4.sh
FAIL: test-mbsstr3.sh
FAIL: test-setlocale1.sh
FAIL: test-wcrtomb.sh
The reason for these failures is that when LC_ALL is set to zh_CN.GB18030,
the test programs (which are libtool wrapper scripts which invoke the real
programs) misbehave. In particular they fail to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH, leading
to errors like
ld.so.1: test-setlocale1: fatal: libgettextlib-0.18.1.so: open failed: No
such file or directory
Narrowing it down: the following command dumps core.
$ LC_ALL=zh_CN.GB18030 bash -c true
And gdb shows a crash inside a shared library for GB18030. Most likely
related to the Solaris 8 bug that we already test for in m4/mbrtowc.m4.
The fix is to avoid using that broken locale on Solaris 8.
2011-06-13 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
locale-zh: Reject zh_CN.GB18030 locale on Solaris 8.
* m4/locale-zh.m4 (gt_LOCALE_ZH_CN): On Solaris 8, set LOCALE_ZH_CN to
'none'.
--- m4/locale-zh.m4.orig Mon Jun 13 20:04:02 2011
+++ m4/locale-zh.m4 Mon Jun 13 18:33:47 2011
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# locale-zh.m4 serial 8
+# locale-zh.m4 serial 9
dnl Copyright (C) 2003, 2005-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
@@ -93,6 +93,12 @@
gt_cv_locale_zh_CN=none
fi
;;
+ solaris2.8)
+ # On Solaris 8, the locales zh_CN.GB18030, zh_CN.GBK, zh.GBK are
+ # broken. One witness is the test case in gl_MBRTOWC_SANITYCHECK.
+ # Another witness is that "LC_ALL=zh_CN.GB18030 bash -c true" dumps
core.
+ gt_cv_locale_zh_CN=none
+ ;;
*)
# Setting LC_ALL is not enough. Need to set LC_TIME to empty, because
# otherwise on MacOS X 10.3.5 the LC_TIME=C from the beginning of the
--
In memoriam Anna Göldi <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Göldi>
