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30.1; Test failure for fns-tests-collate-strings with musl libc

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ulrich Müller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
Cc: 76550 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#76550: 30.1; Test failure for fns-tests-collate-strings with musl libc
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:29:19 +0200

> From: Ulrich Müller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:49:49 +0100
> 
> 1 unexpected results:
>    FAILED  fns-tests-collate-strings  ((should-error (string-collate-equalp "xyzzy" "xyzzy" "en_XY.UTF-8")) :form (string-collate-equalp "xyzzy" "xyzzy" "en_XY.UTF-8") :value t :fail-reason "did not signal an error")
> 
> make[3]: *** [Makefile:185: src/fns-tests.log] Error 1
> 
> 
> The problem is that (string-collate-equalp "xyzzy" "xyzzy" "en_XY.UTF-8")
> doesn't signal an error with musl libc. This is because newlocale(3)
> always succeeds, regardless of the string passed as its second argument.
> 
> (Note that bug #62420 had addressed a failure of the same test, and the
> fix was to replace "en_DE.UTF-8" with "en_XY.UTF-8". This definitely
> isn't enough to fix the problem on musl.)

I think this quirk is glibc-specific, and the test should be disabled
in the musl build.

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