GNU bug report logs - #65310
test failure on Alpine Linux: tests/sort/sort-debug-keys

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From: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: test failure on Alpine Linux: tests/sort/sort-debug-keys
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 15:14:44 +0200

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Hi,

Doing "make check" of current coreutils on Alpine Linux 3.18, I see a
test failure that I didn't see with the coreutils-9.3 release:

FAIL: tests/sort/sort-debug-keys

I'm attaching the relevant part of tests/test-suite.log.

Bruno

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>, 65310 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65310: test failure on Alpine Linux:
 tests/sort/sort-debug-keys
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:50:31 +0100

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On 15/08/2023 14:14, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Doing "make check" of current coreutils on Alpine Linux 3.18, I see a
> test failure that I didn't see with the coreutils-9.3 release:
> 
> FAIL: tests/sort/sort-debug-keys
> 
> I'm attaching the relevant part of tests/test-suite.log.

In the log we have:

  + LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8 sort --debug -k2g -k1b,1
  sort: text ordering performed using ‘fr_FR.UTF-8’ sorting rules
  sort: note numbers use ‘.’ as a decimal point in this locale

The fact that ',' isn't used as the decimal point is surprising,
and is what's causing the test to fail.
The attached adds an extra guard to the test to skip this portion
if ',' is not in fact the decimal point.

cheers,
Pádraig

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Message #11 received at 65310 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
To: 65310 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigbrady.com>
Subject: Re: bug#65310: test failure on Alpine Linux:
 tests/sort/sort-debug-keys
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 23:42:14 +0200

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> The fact that ',' isn't used as the decimal point is surprising,
> and is what's causing the test to fail.

Ah, I see. Yes, for some tests one only needs a fr_FR.UTF-8 that supports
UTF-8 in LC_CTYPE, whereas for other tests it also needs to support the
LC_NUMERIC category correctly.

> The attached adds an extra guard to the test to skip this portion
> if ',' is not in fact the decimal point.

Thanks!

Bruno

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