From: H. Peter Anvin on
On 12/17/2009 02:09 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> This is IMO -next fodder and not urgent stuff.
> In the distant past something similar caused us troubles.
>
> I assume that the patch posted by Roland fixes
> the relevant troubles with the awk script and that
> this patch is just for consistency.
> So in other words stuff for -next and not -rc1.
>

No: the patch Roland posted fixes the problems with non-POSIX-compliant
awk (e.g. mawk), but it in turn requires this patch in order to not
break on non-C-locale-default systems (which are most systems nowadays.)

So -rc1.

-hpa
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From: Masami Hiramatsu on
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 12/17/2009 02:09 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>
>> This is IMO -next fodder and not urgent stuff.
>> In the distant past something similar caused us troubles.
>>
>> I assume that the patch posted by Roland fixes
>> the relevant troubles with the awk script and that
>> this patch is just for consistency.
>> So in other words stuff for -next and not -rc1.
>>
>
> No: the patch Roland posted fixes the problems with non-POSIX-compliant
> awk (e.g. mawk), but it in turn requires this patch in order to not
> break on non-C-locale-default systems (which are most systems nowadays.)

Right, gawk requires locale setting.

btw, something went wrong with it...

---
$ make O=/home/mhiramat/kbin/2.6.32 all
Using /home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux-2.6-tip as source for kernel
GEN /home/mhiramat/kbin/2.6.32/Makefile
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-x86
CALL /home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux-2.6-tip/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
CHK include/linux/compile.h
CHK include/linux/version.h
make[3]: `scripts/unifdef' ???????
TEST posttest
Succeed: decoded and checked 887431 instructions
Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready (#19)
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 434 modules
WARNING: modpost: Found 2 section mismatch(es).
To see full details build your kernel with:
'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y'
---

when I ran with LC_ALL=C, it shows message correctly.

---
$ make O=/home/mhiramat/kbin/2.6.32 all LC_ALL=C
Using /home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux-2.6-tip as source for kernel
GEN /home/mhiramat/kbin/2.6.32/Makefile
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-x86
CALL /home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux-2.6-tip/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
CHK include/linux/compile.h
CHK include/linux/version.h
make[3]: `scripts/unifdef' is up to date.
TEST posttest
Succeed: decoded and checked 887431 instructions
Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready (#19)
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 434 modules
WARNING: modpost: Found 2 section mismatch(es).
To see full details build your kernel with:
'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y'
---

Maybe, "LC_ALL=" line broke it?

Thank you,


>
> So -rc1.
>
> -hpa

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From: H. Peter Anvin on
On 12/17/2009 03:34 PM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 12/17/2009 02:09 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>>
>>> This is IMO -next fodder and not urgent stuff.
>>> In the distant past something similar caused us troubles.
>>>
>>> I assume that the patch posted by Roland fixes
>>> the relevant troubles with the awk script and that
>>> this patch is just for consistency.
>>> So in other words stuff for -next and not -rc1.
>>>
>>
>> No: the patch Roland posted fixes the problems with non-POSIX-compliant
>> awk (e.g. mawk), but it in turn requires this patch in order to not
>> break on non-C-locale-default systems (which are most systems nowadays.)
>
> Right, gawk requires locale setting.
>
> btw, something went wrong with it...
>
> when I ran with LC_ALL=C, it shows message correctly.
>
> Maybe, "LC_ALL=" line broke it?
>

What happens if you remove that part?

-hpa
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From: Masami Hiramatsu on
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 12/17/2009 03:41 PM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>>>
>>> What happens if you remove that part?
>>
>> Commented out LC_ALL= as below;
>>
>
> OK, what about the "unexport" variant?

Sure, unexport variant fixed it too.



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From: H. Peter Anvin on
On 12/17/2009 03:37 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> Maybe, "LC_ALL=" line broke it?
>
> What happens if you remove that part?
>

I mean, of course, the references to LC_ALL.

What would be even better, actually, would be to test the following
incremental patch:

-hpa