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Re: [PATCH] maint: set LANG=C instead of LC_ALL=C


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [PATCH] maint: set LANG=C instead of LC_ALL=C
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 14:14:57 -0500
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On 08/10/2017 12:59 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> It is sometimes neccesssary to override the locale when running
>> build commands from make rules, but as maint.mk set LC_ALL, it
>> is impossible to selectively override rules e.g. LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8
>> will have no effect if LC_ALL is already set.
> 
> Why not unset LC_ALL?

You still want a sane fallback for all the categories that you are not
explicitly setting.  It's harder to type:

LANG=C LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 env -u LC_ALL foo

than it is to type

LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 foo

where we know that LANG=C is already set and LC_ALL is already
out-of-the-way.

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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