Hi, Sachin T wrote: > I'm encountering a build failure while trying to compile Coreutils v9.7 on > IBM z/OS version 2.4. The error message is: > “Please port gnulib getlocalename_l-unsafe.c to your platform! Report this to > bug-gnulib”. > Kindly advise on the recommended approach or if a patch is planned.
We can't patch it without your help, since none of us has access to a z/OS machine. In this mail thread from 2019 <https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnulib/2019-12/msg00174.html> we observed that z/OS has a newlocale() function declared, but that it is useless since the header files don't define the 'locale_t' type. AFAIU, the header files on your machine now have the 'locale_t' type (otherwise Gnulib would have defined GNULIB_defined_locale_t), probably in <locale.h>. But newlocale() is not documented in the z/OS documentation [1]. Therefore the main question is: Is the 'locale_t' type and its associated functions now usable in z/OS or not? Bruno [1] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSLTBW_3.1.0/pdf/bpxbd00_v3r1.pdf
