On 01/08/2010 04:16 AM, Michal Marek wrote: > Setting LC_CTYPE=C breaks localized messages in some setups. With only > LC_COLLATE=C and LC_NUMERIC=C, we get almost all we need, except for not > so defined character classes and tolower()/toupper(). The former is not > a big issue, because we can assume that e.g. [:alpha:] will always > include a-zA-Z and we only ever process ASCII input. The latter seems > only affect arch/sh/tools/gen-mach-types, which we can handle separately. > > So after this patch the meaning of ranges like [a-z], the behavior of > sort and join, etc. should be the same everywhere and at the same time > gcc should be able to print localized waring and error messages. > LC_NUMERIC=C might not be necessary, but setting it doesn't hurt. > > Reported-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reported-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@xxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> For what it's worth: Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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