On 08/10/2017 11:36 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > The maint.mk file currently sets LC_ALL=C so that build rules get a > predictable locale, independant of the user's environment settings.
s/independant/independent/ > > It is sometimes neccesssary to override the locale when running s/neccesssary/necessary/ > build commands from make rules, but as maint.mk set LC_ALL, it > is impossible to selectively override rules e.g. LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 > will have no effect if LC_ALL is already set. > > To deal with this maint.mk should instead set LANG=C, and then > explicitly unset all the other LC_* variables. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <[email protected]> > --- > top/maint.mk | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++--- > 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > -# Prevent programs like 'sort' from considering distinct strings to be equal. > -# Doing it here saves us from having to set LC_ALL elsewhere in this file. > -export LC_ALL = C > +# Ensure a stable locale, independant of the user's environment, so that s/independant/independent/ > +# locale sensitive programs used in the build (eg 'sort') have predictable > +# output. > +# > +# We want apps to be able override individual locale categories in their > +# make rules though, so must not set LC_ALL ourselves, but instead use > +# LANG as the lowest priority variable. > +unexport LC_ALL > +unexport LC_CTYPE Why not do a single line: unexport LC_ALL LC_CTYPE ... > +export LANG = C Otherwise, the idea is sane to me. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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