Re: Fix the locale issue

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Gary,

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:53:39PM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > This patch restores the environment for mode=execute.  Unfortunately,
> > it also means more overhead for every libtool invocation.  :-(
> > (At least no fork&exec.)
> 
> Negligible time overhead... but an unfortunate ugliness all the same.

The corresponding Autoconf code is not negligible in overhead.

> > OK to apply?
> 
> Yes, nice fix, thankyou!

Applied.  But I also added an `export $lt_var' for good measure, at the
right position.

> > I am thinking a bit, though, whether there is something we could get
> > Autoconf to do, before their next release (so we don't have to wait
> > three years until we can use features from their next but one release).
> 
> ACK.  It would be nice to push the solution back into Autoconf so that
> everyone can benefit from it.

Let's see about that.

Cheers,
Ralf

> >     * libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (startup): save all locale specific
> >     environment, variables:, LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_ADDRESS, LC_ALL
> >     LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_IDENTIFICATION, LC_MEASUREMENT,
> >     LC_MESSAGES LC_MONETARY, LC_NAME, LC_NUMERIC, LC_PAPER,
> >     LC_TELEPHONE, LC_TIME.
> >     (func_mode_execute): Restore them.