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Re: Cross-build issues in gdb/gnulib
- From: <Paul_Koning at Dell dot com>
- To: <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- Cc: <palves at redhat dot com>, <gdb at sourceware dot org>, <bug-gnulib at gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:06:25 +0000
- Subject: Re: Cross-build issues in gdb/gnulib
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> On Aug 25, 2015, at 12:58 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> Pedro Alves wrote:
>> # Test for the AIX locale name.
>>> if (LC_ALL=ja_JP LC_TIME= LC_CTYPE= ./conftest; exit) 2>/dev/null; then
>>> gt_cv_locale_ja=ja_JP
>>>
>>> The comment refers to AIX, but it is in fact executed in the "*" case of a case statement, i.e., for everything other than Windows. The same code pattern also appears in the two other locale-*.m4 files.
>
> I'm lost. Do you have a specific Gnulib patch in mind?
I didn't when I wrote that -- all I had was a diagnosis of the underlying bug.
In the meantime I found an autoconf manual and constructed a fix for this issue. I'll send a patch soon, want to do some more testing.
Where should the fix be sent?
paul