[Bug locale/25195] localedef does not return error status when warnings were issued.

["carlos at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25195

Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID

--- Comment #5 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Sergei Trofimovich from comment #4)
> # /usr/bin/localedef -c --no-archive -i en_US -f 'ISO-8859-1-whee' -A
> /usr/share/locale/locale.alias --prefix / en_US; echo $?
> failed to set locale!
> [error] character map file `ISO-8859-1-whee' not found: No such file or
> directory
> 0

Thanks, that helped!

cd $HOME
mkdir -p usr/lib/locale/en_US
/usr/bin/localedef -c --no-archive -i en_US \
  -f 'ISO-8859-1-whee' -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias \
  --prefix $HOME en_US
[error] character map file `ISO-8859-1-whee' not found: No such file or
directory
echo $?
0

Reproduced.

This is the expected behaviour. Sorry I didn't notice the "-c" originally.

(a) You specified "-c" on the command line which means "--force" and so
regardless of errors the output is written.

(b) If output is written then an error code of 4 cannot be returned. That would
violate the POSIX specification e.g. exit code of >= 3 means warnings or errors
occurred and _no output_ was generated.

By using "-c" you are basically saying "ignore errors, and force the output"
and so the output is generated regardless of the error and that operation as
you requested was successful.

Removing "-c" avoids output and returns error code 4.

/usr/bin/localedef --no-archive -i en_US \
  -f 'ISO-8859-1-whee' -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias \
  --prefix $HOME en_US
[error] character map file `ISO-8859-1-whee' not found: No such file or
directory
[error] no output file produced because errors were issued
echo $?
4

I'm marking this RESOLVED/INVALID.

Please reopen if you have any more questions.

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