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Re: [Bug-gnu-utils] grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2 bug report
From: |
Alain Magloire |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-gnu-utils] grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2 bug report |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Sep 2000 11:53:17 -0400 (EDT) |
>
> Alain Magloire wrote:
>
> > Again, I'm not able to reproduce this in my environment.
> > Checking, if you type "which grep" , you are indeed running
> > GNU grep-2.4.2 not some other grep in you PATH ?
>
> OK, I have finally nailed this one down. It is a "locale" problem after all.
> It seems that with grep-2.4.2 if you have your "locale" unset or set to "C",
> all is fine. However, if you have it set to something else, problems arise.
> A few things to note:
>
> 1) This is not a problem with grep-2.4
> 2) This bug does not get caught in the "make check" step of the grep-2.4.2
> build
> 3) The locale is set by default on Mandrake systems. (On mine it's set to
> LANG=en).
>
> I hope this helps.
Please see Paul Eggert's followups, for more comments
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-gnu-utils/2000-September/thread.html
> Thanks for your help,
> -Chris
>
> ps: I have manually set LANG=en_CA on my Redhat system because gdm-2.0beta4
> seems to set it to "(null)" which causes perl to have a hissy fit. But that's
> a bug for another day...
>
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au revoir, alain
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