Re: [tip:x86/urgent] Makefile: set LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_NUMERIC to C

H. Peter Anvin
2009-12-17T22:28:56Z

On 12/17/2009 02:09 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> This is IMO -next fodder and not urgent stuff.
> In the distant past something similar caused us troubles.
>
> I assume that the patch posted by Roland fixes
> the relevant troubles with the awk script and that
> this patch is just for consistency.
> So in other words stuff for -next and not -rc1.
>

No: the patch Roland posted fixes the problems with non-POSIX-compliant
awk (e.g. mawk), but it in turn requires this patch in order to not
break on non-C-locale-default systems (which are most systems nowadays.)

So -rc1.

-hpa