Re: Coreutils-5.0 make check failed on Solaris

[Paul Eggert]

Alexandre Peshansky <address@hidden> writes:

> As a P.S.: after I added symlink to 
> /usr/lib/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_CTYPE/ldterm.dat in 
> /usr/lib/locale/C/LC_CTYPE/, I re-run make check and it worked!

I don't think that's a good idea, because it could well break other programs.

How about this change instead?

2004-10-13  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * tests/stty/row-col-1: Set LC_ALL=C.

Index: tests/stty/row-col-1
===================================================================
RCS file: /fetish/cu/tests/stty/row-col-1,v
retrieving revision 1.8
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -p -u -r1.8 -r1.9
--- tests/stty/row-col-1        14 May 2003 06:27:45 -0000      1.8
+++ tests/stty/row-col-1        13 Oct 2004 23:06:57 -0000      1.9
@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ fi
 COLUMNS=80
 export COLUMNS
 
+# Make sure we get English-language behavior.
+# See the report about a possibly-related Solaris problem by Alexandre 
Peshansky
+# <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-10/msg00035.html>.
+# Currently stty isn't localized, but it might be in the future.
+LC_ALL=C
+export LC_ALL
+
 # Make sure there's a tty on stdin.
 . $srcdir/../input-tty