glibc 2.1.91 (first test release for 2.2)

H . J . Lu hjl@lucon.org
Mon Jul 3 19:24:00 GMT 2000


On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 09:28:45PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> 
> > It doesn't help.
> 
> Yes, thinking about it, it's not working in most cases.  What we have
> to do is to add
> 
> 	LC_ALL=C
> 
> to the environment.  Since there is no guarantee that the user has one
> of the locales we generated it's not possible to try using them
> (besides, it's an chicken and egg problem).
> 

I saw you put in LANGUAGE=C. I don't know what is used for. However,
LANG is checked in locale/findlocale.c and locale/programs/locale.c.
Mine it set to en_US. /usr/share/locale/locale.alias is used in
"make check" instead of the one in glibc.


H.J.


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