bug#26044: coreutils-8.27 fails to build

[Pádraig Brady]

On 11/03/17 09:12, J Rogowsky wrote:
> On 2017.03.11, at 00:11:03, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 
>> On 09/03/17 23:22, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>>> BTW, I had only one test FAIL in "make check":  tests/misc/sort- 
>>>> debug-
>>>> keys
>>>> Is this related to the above?
>>> I'm guessing that "failure" might be locale related.
>>> Could you attach the tests/test-suite.log file generated with:
>>>  make TESTS=tests/misc/sort-debug-keys.sh SUBDIRS=. VERBOSE=yes check
>>
>> Best keep all responses on the list.
> Sorry. I am a newbie at this and not accustomed to doing this kind of  
> thing.
> 
>> The log you sent privately, did indeed indicate a locale issue.
>> In particular sort was operating in LC_ALL=C mode when
>> it should have been in fr_FR.utf8.  This is the only test
>> that sets LC_MESSAGES separately to LC_COLLATE etc.
>> so perhaps if we use LC_ALL for each sort invocation in
>> this test, it avoids this particular issue on your system?
>>
>> Can you try running the above make check command again,
>> with the attached patch applied.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Pádraig
>> <sort-debug-osx.patch>
> 
> Yes, that solved the problem.
> test results attached.

Excellent. Pushed at:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.27-6-g04148c9

thanks!
Pádraig.