Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.15.74-be17e3

[Pádraig Brady]

On 03/16/2012 08:40 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> We want to release coreutils-8.16 soon, so here's a snapshot.
> I'll let the NEWS and git shortlog details say the rest,
> other than "Thanks!" to all who are helping.
> 
> coreutils snapshot:
>   http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz      4.8 MB
>   http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
>   http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-8.15.74-be17e3.tar.xz

Lots of tests were failing on this loan machine:

$ system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType
Software:

    System Software Overview:

      System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
      Kernel Version: Darwin 10.8.0
      Boot Volume: Macintosh HD
      Boot Mode: Normal
      Computer Name: --------------
      User Name: ------------------
      Secure Virtual Memory: Not Enabled
      64-bit Kernel and Extensions: No
      Time since boot: 22 days 16:41

This was due to quotes being generated as the fancy curly variety,
which in turn was due to locale_charset() returning "UTF-8",
which in turn was due to nl_langinfo() returning "US-ASCII".
This happens for "C" or any unknown charset?

The proposed gnulib patch avoids the issue for me.

cheers,
Pádraig

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