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Date:      Fri, 3 Jan 2003 19:01:23 +0100
From:      Thomas Moestl <tmoestl@gmx.net>
To:        Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
Cc:        Olafur Osvaldsson <oli@isnic.is>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Locale errors on 5.0-CURRENT (sparc)
Message-ID:  <20030103180123.GA284@crow.dom2ip.de>
In-Reply-To: <20030103132927.GC45645@straylight.oblivion.bg>
References:  <20030103120057.GI74128@isnic.is> <20030103123141.GA45645@straylight.oblivion.bg> <20030103132927.GC45645@straylight.oblivion.bg>

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On Fri, 2003/01/03 at 15:29:27 +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 02:31:41PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > FWIW, I can reproduce this on panther.FreeBSD.org, a sparc64 running
> > 5.0-CURRENT as of December 6, 2001.  All the other machines in the
> > FreeBSD cluster that I could test - ref5 (i386), pluto1 (IA-64), and
> > beast (alpha) - are able to set both the is_IS.ISO8859-1 and the
> > bg_BG.CP1251 locales correctly for both LC_ALL and LC_TIME.  Only the
> > sparc64 machine is having trouble setting LC_ALL for any locale I tried.
> 
> Actually, I seem to have found the reason: on panther.FreeBSD.org, there
> are no LC_CTYPE files for any locale, and setlocale(LC_ALL) attempts to
> load, well, *all* locale type definitions, including LC_CTYPE.  Thus, it
> would (and does) return NULL with errno set to ENOENT for all locales...
> 
> The LC_CTYPE files are not there, because there is an explicit test for
> the build architecture in src/share/Makefile, which excludes the
> mklocale directory for sparc64; it was introduced in rev. 1.27 by David
> O'Brien about 7 months ago.  David, what exactly was the 'bad juju'
> mentioned in the commit message, and is it still there?  A test run of
> 'cvs up share/mklocale && cd share/mklocale && make' on panther seemed
> to complete OK; I have not yet tested the resulting locale files though.

Yeah, I just noticed that, too. As far as I can tell, this is purely
historical, if I remember correctly mklocale did crash back then. I
will re-enable it.

	- Thomas

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