Makefile: set LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_NUMERIC to C
authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:56:11 +0000 (06:56 -0800)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:03:21 +0000 (07:03 -0800)
There are a number of common Unix constructs like character ranges in
grep/sed/awk which don't work as expected with LC_COLLATE set to other
than C.  Similarly, set LC_CTYPE and LC_NUMERIC to C to avoid other
nasty surprises.

In order to make sure these actually take effect we also have to
clear LC_ALL.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@sues.cz>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B2A1761.4070904@suse.cz>

Makefile

index 33d4732a6c4a319c4479933c826dd37be489684b..6e39af1d8bc4401332de21d6717db52b61fc066a 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ NAME = Man-Eating Seals of Antiquity
 # o  print "Entering directory ...";
 MAKEFLAGS += -rR --no-print-directory
 
+# Avoid funny character set dependencies
+LC_ALL=
+LC_CTYPE=C
+LC_COLLATE=C
+LC_NUMERIC=C
+export LC_ALL LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE LC_NUMERIC
+
 # We are using a recursive build, so we need to do a little thinking
 # to get the ordering right.
 #