On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:55:58PM -0400, Ben Elliston wrote:
>>>>> "HJ" == H J Lu <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
HJ> There is a problem with
HJ> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-06/msg00594.html
[...]
HJ> It may also cause problems for other scripts. I don't know what is the
HJ> best way to deal with it. Shouldn't we introduce a new option,
HJ> -L|--sort-locale?
How about modifying the testsuite to run the tested programs in an
explicit locale?
Are you going to modify all scripts which use nm? I am not talking
about just the binutils testsuite.
I believe this is the norm. If a script doesn't set the locale, and
just trusts that it is C, then the script is broken.