Subject: bug#10684: guile-2.0.5 test failures on powerpc-darwin8

From: David Fang <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 14:56:53 -0500 (EST)

>> FAIL: i18n.test: format ~h: English: 12345.5678
>
> Yes, thatÿÿs a new feature, and a new regression.  ;-)
> Can you try:
>
>  (use-modules (ice-9 format))
>  (setlocale LC_ALL "en_US")
>  (format #f "~h" 12345.5678)

[fangism:guile20-2.0.5.24-e7f7-0/guile-2.0.5.24-e7f7/build] fang% 
meta/guile
GNU Guile 2.0.5.24-e7f7
Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'.
This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details.

Enter `,help' for help.
scheme@(guile-user)> (use-modules (ice-9 format))
scheme@(guile-user)> (setlocale LC_ALL "en_US")
$1 = "en_US"
scheme@(guile-user)> (format #f "~" 12345.5678)
;;; <stdin>:3:0: warning: "~": wrong number of `format' arguments: 
expected 0, got 1
$2 = "~"

>  (use-modules (ice-9 i18n))
>  (setlocale LC_ALL "en_US")
>  (locale-decimal-point)
>  (locale-thousands-separator)

[fangism:guile20-2.0.5.24-e7f7-0/guile-2.0.5.24-e7f7/build] fang% 
meta/guile
GNU Guile 2.0.5.24-e7f7
Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'.
This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details.

Enter `,help' for help.
scheme@(guile-user)> (use-modules (ice-9 i18n))
scheme@(guile-user)> (setlocale LC_ALL "en_US")
$1 = "en_US"
scheme@(guile-user)> (locale-decimal-point)
$2 = "."
scheme@(guile-user)> (locale-thousands-separator)
$3 = ","

-- 
David Fang
http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~fang/