Re: coreutils-6.0: numerous test failures on MacOS X

[Paul Eggert]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> 2006-08-16  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>
>
>       * tests/lang-default: Set LC_ALL to "C", not empty.

I think this is the right sort of fix, though I'm puzzled as to why
the code set LC_ALL to the empty string in the first place.

This dates back to this entry in old/fileutils/ChangeLog:

2000-10-22  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * tests/lang-default: New file.  Set LANG, LC_ALL, and LANGUAGE to ''
        (rather than to `C') and export them into the environment.
        Suggestion from Bruno Haible.

Do you recall why they were set to '' back then?

Anyway, in the meantime I thought I'd install this:

2006-08-16  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * tests/lang-default (LC_ALL): Set to "C", so we get
        English-language diagnostics.  Unset the other variables; it
        should be portable to use 'unset' for this stuff nowadays.
        Problem reported by Bruno Haible.  Using "C" reverses the
        2000-10-22 change to fileutils in this area.

--- tests/lang-default  31 Oct 2000 19:33:30 -0000      1.3
+++ tests/lang-default  16 Aug 2006 20:11:42 -0000      1.4
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
 # Set locale-related environment variables so we get consistent
 # message translations, time formats, sort orderings, etc.
 
-for i in \
-    LANG LANGUAGE LC_ALL LC_COLLATE LC_CTYPE LC_MESSAGES LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME; do
-  eval "$i=; export $i"
-done
+LC_ALL=C
+export LC_ALL
+unset LANGUAGE NLSPATH
+
+# These settings shouldn't matter, but unset them anyway just in case.
+unset LANG LC_COLLATE LC_CTYPE LC_MESSAGES LC_MONETARY LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME