Re: [PATCH] x86 vdso: fix build locale dependency

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Wed Feb 27 2008 - 15:43:25 EST


On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:42:15AM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> Priit Laes discovered that the sed command processing nm output was
> sensitive to locale settings. This was addressed in commit
> 03994f01e8b72b3d01fd3d09d1cc7c9f421a727c by using [:alnum:] in place of
> [a-zA-Z0-9]. But that too is locale-dependent and may not always match
> the identifiers it needs to. The better fix is just to run sed et al
> with a fixed locale setting in all builds.

Priit's original patch used the LC_ALL trick. It is
me to blame that it was replaced with [:alnum:] :-(

Sam
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