On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 2:22 PM Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list <bug-gnulib@gnu.org> wrote: > Hi. I noticed that 'make syntax-check' never ran syntax checks whose > name contained 'w' on my local machine, but did so on CICD builds. I > tracked it down due to this: > > jas@latte:~/src/gsasl$ echo $LANG > sv_SE.UTF-8 > jas@latte:~/src/gsasl$ echo foowbar: | sed -n 's/^\([a-z]*\):/\1/p' > jas@latte:~/src/gsasl$ echo foowbar: | LANG=C sed -n 's/^\([a-z]*\):/\1/p' > foowbar > jas@latte:~/src/gsasl$ > > The following patch (installed) fixes this for me, although I suspect > other uses in maint.mk may be affected too.
Hi Simon. Happy new year. Good catch. We're probably ready to start using character classes like [:alnum:], but it's better to fix this to use LC_ALL=C for now. I.e., please use LC_ALL=C, not LANG=C in that patch. Thanks, Jim
