GNU bug report logs - #38503
Locale can cause incorrect number parsing in binary files

Previous Next

Package: grep;

Reported by: jan h <jharald.j <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 20:02:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log


Message #24 received at 38503 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: jan h <jharald.j <at> gmail.com>, 38503 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38503: Locale can cause incorrect number parsing in binary
 files
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 14:50:12 -0600
On 12/5/19 12:55 PM, jan h wrote:
> compiling from scratch resulted in a normal, working version
> apparently Arch's package was somehow badly made?

You also need to check whether your builds were using gnulib's regcomp 
replacement, or sticking with the one from glibc; and in turn which 
version of glibc is in use (as it was glibc 2.28 that tried to use RRI 
in more locales, although work is still not complete there - and the 
presence or absence of particular historical glibc regcomp bugs 
determines whether configure decides to use gnulib's version instead).

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org





This bug report was last modified 5 years and 230 days ago.

Previous Next


GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.