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Re: [rfa/ping] lib/gdb.exp: remove LC_ALL=C workaround for readline bug
- From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>
- To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 18:40:53 -0500
- Subject: Re: [rfa/ping] lib/gdb.exp: remove LC_ALL=C workaround for readline bug
- References: <200301302329.h0UNTwn16671@duracef.shout.net>
Michael Elizabeth Chastain writes:
> It's been a week, and I haven't gotten any response yet.
> Ping ...
Hmm, I can approve this. It is quite obvious.
thanks
elena
>
> This patch reverts a recent patch in lib/gdb.exp:
>
> 2003-01-06 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
>
> * lib/gdb.exp: Set LC_ALL to "C" to avoid spurious testsuite
> failures.
>
> Setting LC_ALL is a workaround for a bug in readline 4.3 regarding
> perverse screen refresh in a UTF-8 locale.
>
> Chet Ramey, the readline maintainer, send me a patch for this,
> and I committed that patch to gdb HEAD on 2003-01-09. So we don't need
> this work around any more.
>
> Testing: I tested this with: target=native, host=i686-pc-linux-gnu,
> osversion=red-hat-8.0, LANG=en_US.UTF-8. I tested with gcc v2 and v3,
> dwarf-2 and stabs+.
>
> OK to commit?
>
> Michael C
>
> 2003-01-21 Michael Chastain <mec@shout.net>
>
> * lib/gdb.exp: Revert patch of 2003-01-06, which set LC_ALL.
> This was a workaround for a UTF-8 bug in readline 4.3. The bug
> has been fixed in gdb/readline on 2003-01-09.
>
> Index: lib/gdb.exp
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp,v
> retrieving revision 1.32
> diff -u -r1.32 gdb.exp
> --- lib/gdb.exp 6 Jan 2003 18:10:32 -0000 1.32
> +++ lib/gdb.exp 21 Jan 2003 21:46:07 -0000
> @@ -64,9 +64,6 @@
> set EXEEXT $env(EXEEXT)
> }
>
> -# Make sure we are using the C locale.
> -set env(LC_ALL) "C"
> -
> ### Only procedures should come after this point.
>
> #