The recent changes to setting and unexport various LC_ variables produces a problem on my system (Debian sid). $ locale LANG=ja_JP.utf8 LANGUAGE=ja_JP.utf8 LC_CTYPE="ja_JP.utf8" LC_NUMERIC="ja_JP.utf8" LC_TIME="ja_JP.utf8" LC_COLLATE="ja_JP.utf8" LC_MONETARY="ja_JP.utf8" LC_MESSAGES="ja_JP.utf8" LC_PAPER="ja_JP.utf8" LC_NAME="ja_JP.utf8" LC_ADDRESS="ja_JP.utf8" LC_TELEPHONE="ja_JP.utf8" LC_MEASUREMENT="ja_JP.utf8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="ja_JP.utf8" LC_ALL=ja_JP.utf8 Without this patch: $ make make[2]: ??: ?? make ? -jN ?????????: jobserver ??????????. make[2]: ??: ?? make ? -jN ?????????: jobserver ??????????. With this patch: $ make ... make[2]: warning: -jN forced in submake: disabling jobserver mode. make[2]: warning: -jN forced in submake: disabling jobserver mode. ... Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/Makefile =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/Makefile 2009-12-24 22:09:29.000000000 +1100 +++ linux-2.6/Makefile 2009-12-24 22:10:58.000000000 +1100 @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ NAME = Man-Eating Seals of Antiquity MAKEFLAGS += -rR --no-print-directory # Avoid funny character set dependencies +unexport LANG unexport LC_ALL LC_CTYPE=C LC_COLLATE=C -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html