glibc 2.1.91 (first test release for 2.2)

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Mon Jul 3 20:00:00 GMT 2000


"H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> 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.

LANGUAGE=C disables the message translation.  This is the second part
which can lead to segfaults due to changed interfaces.  And setting
LC_ALL is enough since then LANG will never be looked at.

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