linux-kernel - Re: [patch] Makefile: Unexport LANG

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Date:	Fri, 8 Jan 2010 12:57:45 +0100
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Makefile: Unexport LANG

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:43:55PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 01/07/2010 04:41 PM, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 10:20:07PM +1100, Simon Horman wrote:
> >> On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 09:14:40PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I think it's up to Michal to pick the preferred solution.
> 
> It has been pointed out that one option might also to be to *not*
> override LC_CTYPE, and only override LC_COLLATE.

Yes, that's imo a good compromise. As I noted in another thread, the
only drawback of not setting LC_CTYPE is that it makes the behavior of
awk's tolower()/toupper() volatile, but that seems to be only used in a
single script. I'll post a patch in a separate email.


On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 01:59:24PM +1100, Simon Horman wrote:
> Is it just me or is Michal's email bouncing of late?

My email address was wrong, sues.cz does not exist, suse.cz does. Which
is why I overlooked this thread.

Michal
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