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Re: Cross-build issues in gdb/gnulib
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Paul_Koning at dell dot com, eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org, bug-gnulib at gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:54:01 +0100
- Subject: Re: Cross-build issues in gdb/gnulib
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On 08/25/2015 06:06 PM, Paul_Koning@dell.com wrote:
>
>> On Aug 25, 2015, at 12:58 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Pedro Alves wrote:
>>> # Test for the AIX locale name.
>>>> if (LC_ALL=ja_JP LC_TIME= LC_CTYPE= ./conftest; exit) 2>/dev/null; then
>>>> gt_cv_locale_ja=ja_JP
>>>>
>>>> The comment refers to AIX, but it is in fact executed in the "*" case of a case statement, i.e., for everything other than Windows. The same code pattern also appears in the two other locale-*.m4 files.
>>
>> I'm lost. Do you have a specific Gnulib patch in mind?
>
> I didn't when I wrote that -- all I had was a diagnosis of the underlying bug.
>
> In the meantime I found an autoconf manual and constructed a fix for this issue. I'll send a patch soon, want to do some more testing.
>
> Where should the fix be sent?
To bug-gnulib@gnu.org. I can update gdb's copy once gnulib master has it fixed.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves