[vlc-devel] Forwarding Gentoo patches.

Luca Barbato lu_zero at gentoo.org
Fri Apr 5 16:25:52 CEST 2013


On 02/04/13 12:19, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> If you force LC_* to C then there is indeed no difference, but this is
> not the case here. I test packages against the environment they will
> run on, so when vlc is built, it is build with LC_* set to what I use.
> In many cases it happens that collating is 'aAbB..zZ' so that [A-Z]*
> matches 'const'.
> AFAIK headers are supposed to be ascii, so what's the difference
> between LC_COLLATE=C A-Z and :upper: ? I prefer using the semantical
> regexp rather than forcing C collating. Either way, there is something
> to fix here since 'make check' is broken with some locales.

Currently LC_COLLATE is not set... Either we use the :upper: or we use
LC_COLLATE. As is the check won't result in the correct execution...

Which is the locale causing it btw?

lu



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