HELP! longstanding abi_check failures on i686 & x86_64 (linux-gnu)

[Joe Buck]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 11:32:15AM +0200, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> Hi Kaveh,
> >I'm seeing abi_check failures from 4.1 through mainline on i686 and
> >x86_64, e.g.:
> >
> >http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2008-04/msg00000.html
> >http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2008-04/msg00001.html
> >  
> I'm pretty sure this is a well know issue: the large number (326) of 
> unsupported tests says  that you don't have a complete set of localedata 
> installed:
> 
>  http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/build.html#build.prereq

The section you point to says that if the needed locales aren't present,
some tests will be skipped.  It does not say that the abi_check test
will fail.