Hi Bruno, Yes, you’re right — locale_t is not yet part of the official z/OS runtime API. However, we do have a library called zoslib<https://github.com/ibmruntimes/zoslib> which provides implementations for many POSIX APIs not natively available on z/OS. The locale_t type and related functions, including getlocalename_l, are implemented as part of this library. That said, I'm encountering an issue while building Coreutils. From the configure log, it correctly detects that getlocalename_l is available and functional. However, the gnulib-test target fails with the same error mentioned previously. I suspect this is related to the conditional macros: GL_COND_OBJ_GETLOCALENAME_L_UNSAFE_LIMITED_TRUE='#' GL_COND_OBJ_GETLOCALENAME_L_UNSAFE_LIMITED_FALSE='' Any guidance or suggestions on addressing this would be greatly appreciated. Best Regards Sachin
From: Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> Date: Friday, 11 April 2025 at 4:26 AM To: bug-gnulib@gnu.org <bug-gnulib@gnu.org>, Sachin T <sachi...@ibm.com> Cc: Daniel Richard G. <sk...@iskunk.org> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Build failure on IBM z/OS 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
