linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.0.1 compile problem on different locales..

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Date:	Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:58:02 -0400
From:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
To:	Serdar KÖYLÜ <s.koylux@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 3.0.1 compile problem on different locales..

Hi,

[Added linux-kbuild@ to the CC list.]

2011/8/15 Serdar KÖYLÜ <s.koylux@...il.com>:
> FYI.
>
> I download latest stable version and try compile it. But process
> terminated with an error message, such as:
>
> error config/modversions.h, file or directory not found (Message is my
> original language, in Turkish).
>
> I check manually this file, found it as:
>
> foo/linux-3.0.1/include/config/modversIons.h
>
> And all other "i" chars, translated into "I" chars. I run a grep, find this:
>
> [root@...alhost kconfig]# grep -in tolower *.c
> confdata.c:730:                 c = tolower(c);
>
> I set env. vars such as "LC_CTYPE=C" manually, retry compile kernel,
> yes, it's compiled now.
>
> I don't know best solutions for this problem. A solutions can be write
> some warnings in related documents. An other solution, make a patch,
> such as:
>
> - confdata.c:730:                 c = tolower(c);
> +#define TOLOWER(x) ((x) | 0x20)
> +confdata.c:730:                 c = TOLOWER(c);
>
> or makefiles set locale to "C". I don't sure best solution. But this
> problem occured in turkish and can be occurred other langs.
>
What is the Turkish locale you were using originally ?

Thanks,
 - Arnaud

> Thanks, best regards..
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