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

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Rich,

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

Thanks for letting me know that I can stop searching.

> 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.

Indeed. That explains it all.

It also explains why you have less locales than I see (and why your strace
indicates that you don't have a /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive, while I do
have one) in a fresh Fedora 29 install:
Apparently the result of an upgrade and of a fresh install are different.

Bruno