linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/urgent] Makefile: set LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC

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Date:	Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:46:49 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>
CC:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mmarek@...e.cz,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] Makefile: set LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE,	LC_NUMERIC
 to C

On 12/17/2009 03:44 PM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Roland Dreier wrote:
>>
>>  > btw, something went wrong with it...
>>
>>  > make[3]: `scripts/unifdef' ???????
>>
>>  > when I ran with LC_ALL=C, it shows message correctly.
>>
>>  > make[3]: `scripts/unifdef' is up to date.
>>
>> Do you have LANG and/or LC_MESSAGES set?  LC_ALL will override all other
>> locale settings, so hpa explicitly unset it so that the other LC_xxx
>> variables will be used.  But it means your environment's LC_MESSAGES (or
>> LANG if LC_MESSAGES is not set) will be used.
> 
> Actually, I haven't touched it (I just installed Fedora11).
> And I think most of users don't set it too.
> 

Fedora will typically set LANG.  Do:

printenv | egrep '^(LANG|LC_)'

... to verify.

	-hpa
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