Re: patch locale settings

[Dmitry Goncharov]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 08:31:39AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> That's because before we try to detect these messages we explicitly set
> the locale in Perl; see test_driver.pl:
> 
>   my $loc = undef;
>   if ($has_POSIX) {
>       $loc = POSIX::setlocale(POSIX::LC_MESSAGES);
>       POSIX::setlocale(POSIX::LC_MESSAGES, 'C');
>   }
>    ...get messages...
>   $loc and POSIX::setlocale(POSIX::LC_MESSAGES, $loc);
> 
> So, the question is why does your Perl still provide language-specific
> messages?
has_POSIX is uninitialized at the time test_driver.pl reads it, because
(atleast in my testing) the code which initializes has_POSIX hasn't run yet.

...

> FWIW, I don't want to change the shell script and call that done
> because not everyone invokes the unit tests via the shell script: they
> may invoke it via "perl run_make_tests.pl ..." directly.
Let me come up with a fix for 'perl run_make_tests.pl'.

regards, Dmitry