Re: possible bug in libtool w/ MinGW on Chinese locale

[Xiaofan Chen]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> [ Tim, there is a question for you below ]
>
> Hello Pete, Xiaofan,
> A couple of questions:
>
> 1) Would it also be sufficient to just
>  LC_ALL=C; LANGUAGE=C; export LANGUAGE LC_ALL

This is enough to solve the issue.

> or do you actually need LANG to be set?  Autoconf-generated configure
> scripts set these two unconditionally, so I don't expect any problems
> there.

Somehow under MinGW I had the issue even though the configure
scripts are generated by Autoconf.
http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-Problem-compiling-with-MingW-p27809936.html
With the forced Locale settings and it became fine.
http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-Problem-compiling-with-MingW-p27810019.html

> 2) If LANG needs to be set, then we may run into
>
>  # Only set LANG and LC_ALL to C if already set.
>  # These must not be set unconditionally because not all systems understand
>  # e.g. LANG=C (notably SCO).
>
> Tim, this code was from some initial revision in '97.  Do I gather
> correctly that it has no relevance today, and that we should just
> remove this?

Pete's response here. We think that SCO may not be relevant now.
http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-Problem-compiling-with-MingW-p27816064.html

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