Re: Silent test failures when no French, Japanese, Chinese locales installed

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 08:38:16AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > $ grep LOCALE_FR config.status
> > 
> > S["LOCALE_FR_UTF8"]="fr_FR.UTF-8"
> > S["LOCALE_FR"]="fr_FR"
> 
> Since I'm using gnulib from libguestfs, here's what's in the
> libguestfs config.status:
> 
> $ grep LOCALE_FR config.status
> S["LOCALE_FR"]="fr_FR"
> S["LOCALE_FR_UTF8"]="fr_FR.UTF-8"

So the above was the clue to fixing it.

> ./autogen.sh \
>   --prefix /usr \
>   --libdir /usr/lib64 \
>   --disable-static \
>   --with-default-backend=libvirt \
>   --with-extra="local,libvirt" \
>   --enable-werror \
>   --disable-golang \
>   --with-gtk=2 \
>   -C

Because I'm using -C, ‘config.cache’ was caching the results of a
previous locale command.  In the upgrade from F28->29 the locales were
uninstalled and the cache became invalid.

After removing the cache and rebuilding it's all working.

Thanks,

Rich.

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