Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:12:37 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: jilles@stack.nl Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tr A-Z a-z in locales other than C Message-ID: <4deef6b5.i/YJyk4lV85AhCTM%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20110607211712.GA16994@stack.nl> References: <20110606224105.GA92410@stack.nl> <20110607002442.GA89483@vniz.net> <20110607211712.GA16994@stack.nl>
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Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 04:24:43AM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: ... > > Back to the ports: it is not hard to run _any_ port's make > > or configure with LANG=C directly by the ports Mk system to > > eliminate that problem. > > True, but some ports install scripts with problematic tr calls. So part of the porting effort may be to provide a patch that prepends something along the lines of "env LANG=C" to tr calls in those scripts. It would surely not be the only kind of situation in which a port needed to patch the ported code to get it to run correctly on FreeBSD :)
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