Io does not work for the new gnu locale code on my system

[Benjamin Kosnik]

> I have serious problems employing the new locale code on my system. My
> system setup is vanilla SuSE 7.3 (Glibc 2.2.4, binutils 2.11.90.0.29)
> running a 2.4.14 linux kernel.

Perhaps Andreas can give you some pointers. Other than that, you might 
want to try the gcc-3.0.3 version of libstdc++-3.0.95

> 2) When I configure the libstdc++ library without any locale specific
>    flags the generic locale code is chosen. From the information
>    gleaned from the configure script I suppose on my linux box given
>    the version of glibc the gnu version of the locale code should be chosen.

Depends on the version of glibc 2.2.4

> 4) IO does work for the generic locale abstraction. And additionally
>    there are only three g++ compiler failures exposed by the g++
>    regression testsuite. I believe these are irrelevant for the
>    libstdc++ library.


Huh. Maybe the configure tests are not yet complete...