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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Gracefully handle incompatible locale data
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 21:32:22 +0200
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To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
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Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> [Removed libc-alpha from the CC list]
>
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:
>
>> With libc 2.22 people are starting to realize that libc does not
>> guarantee that it can load locale data built with another libc version,
>> but they learn it the hard way:
>>
>>   loadlocale.c:130: _nl_intern_locale_data: Assertion `cnt < (sizeof (_n=
l_value_type_LC_COLLATE) / sizeof (_nl_value_type_LC_COLLATE[0]))' failed.
>
> FYI, this is the cause of the test suite failures of our 'guix' packages
> on the core-updates branch.  It occurs during the "wrap-program, one
> input, multiple calls" test in tests/build-utils.  See below for the
> relevant excerpt from test-suite.log.

This test runs the bootstrap Bash, which is linked against an old libc,
hence the failure.

I think this is fixed by 12cd4dd.

There=E2=80=99s a couple of other test failures that need to be fixed in bo=
th
branches before we can update the =E2=80=98guix-devel=E2=80=99 snapshot tho=
ugh.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.