On 2023-07-10 05:28, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> AFAIR, Gnulib-generated configure scripts always check for the French
> locale, for whatever reasons.

The recent patch should cause that to stop happening for Emacs's 
configure script.
> But shouldn't LOCALE_FR_UTF8 be quoted in the below fragment?
> 
>        if test $LOCALE_FR_UTF8 != none; then
>          if test "$cross_compiling" = yes; then :

Quoting should not be necessary, because at that point LOCALE_FR_UTF8's 
value is guaranteed to be safe without quoting.

Come to think of it, that shell script fragment can be optimized away so 
this issue won't even come up. I installed the attached to do that.