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#31318
emacs-26 fns-tests-collate-sort failure on glibc 2.27
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Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 17:37:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #16 received at 31318 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> Cc: 31318 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 17:39:57 -0700
>
> Regardless of whether one thinks the change was a good idea, the Emacs
> tests should be portable to any POSIX platform, and since POSIX does not
> specify how the en_US.utf8 locale works the tests should not insist on
> either the old glibc implementation or the new one.
Absolutely. But IMO it'd be a pity not to be able to test this
important functionality on Posix platforms. So how about replacing
these tests with something that works in a non-en_US locale in a way
that is different from en_US? The functions being tested signal an
error if a locale passed to them is not installed, so it should be
possible to test whether a locale is available before running a test
with it.
WDYT?
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