If the user environment has either LC_ALL or LANG defined, the setting of LC_COLLATE in src/mkbuiltins is overriden. With a non-POSIX locale, the orders of dotcmd (remember that '.' is 0x2e in ascii) and truecmd (':' is 0x3a in ascii) are reversed, which makes the ":" command fail in the bsearch. Tested: Before this patch: $ env |grep -e LANG -e LC_ALL LC_ALL=en_US.ISO8859-15 LANG=en_US.iso885915 $ ./autogen.sh ... $ ./configure ... $ make clean; make -j 40 ... $ ./src/dash -c ":" ./src/dash: 1: :: not found $ grep -A 3 'struct builtincmd builtincmd' src/builtins.c const struct builtincmd builtincmd[] = { { ":", truecmd, 3 }, { ".", dotcmd, 3 }, { "[", testcmd, 0 }, $ make clean; LC_ALL= LANG= make -j 40 ... $ ./src/dash -c ":" $ grep -A 3 'struct builtincmd builtincmd' src/builtins.c const struct builtincmd builtincmd[] = { { ".", dotcmd, 3 }, { ":", truecmd, 3 }, { "[", testcmd, 0 }, After this patch: $ env |grep -e LANG -e LC_ALL LC_ALL=en_US.ISO8859-15 LANG=en_US.iso885915 $ ./autogen.sh $ ./configure ... $ make clean; make -j 40 ... $ ./src/dash -c ":" $ grep -A 3 'struct builtincmd builtincmd' src/builtins.c const struct builtincmd builtincmd[] = { { ".", dotcmd, 3 }, { ":", truecmd, 3 }, { "[", testcmd, 0 }, Signed-off-by: Chema Gonzalez <chema@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/mkbuiltins | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/mkbuiltins b/src/mkbuiltins index f562ae2..70308bd 100644 --- a/src/mkbuiltins +++ b/src/mkbuiltins @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ awk '{ for (i = 2 ; i <= NF ; i++) { if ($i ~ /^-/) line = $(++i) "\t" line print line - }}' $temp | LC_COLLATE=C sort -k 1,1 | tee $temp2 | awk '{ + }}' $temp | LC_ALL=C sort -k 1,1 | tee $temp2 | awk '{ opt = "" if (NF > 2) { opt = substr($2, 2) -- 2.1.0.rc2.206.gedb03e5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html