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PATCH: Export LC_ALL=C (Re: Sorting in nm and testsuite)

Geoff Keating geoffk@geoffk.org
Wed Jun 26 17:01:00 GMT 2002 
> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:49:46 +0930
> From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>

> I happen to think it quite reasonable to set LC_ALL in
> the makefile.  If you're in the habit of running standalone tests,
> you'll soon get into the habit of setting one more environment var as
> well.  :)

It's not 'one more', it's 'one'.  Normally you don't need to set any
special environment variables to use runtest.

After all, we're not saying that we only support binutils when
LC_ALL=C, right?  So how can we test them with other LC_ALL settings
if the testsuite requires LC_ALL=C everywhere?

[I note, BTW, that whoever made the original change that caused the
problem seems to have forgotten to add a testcase for it; the obvious
testcase is to set LC_ALL=en_US and check that the sort order changes.]

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>
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