Re: [Bug-gnu-utils] grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2 bug report

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> Alain Magloire wrote:
> 
> > Again, I'm not able to reproduce this in my environment.
> > Checking, if you type "which grep" , you are indeed running
> > GNU grep-2.4.2 not some other grep in you PATH ?
> 
> OK, I have finally nailed this one down.  It is a "locale" problem after all.
> It seems that with grep-2.4.2 if you have your "locale" unset or set to "C",
> all is fine.  However, if you have it set to something else, problems arise.
> A few things to note:
> 
> 1) This is not a problem with grep-2.4
> 2) This bug does not get caught in the "make check" step of the grep-2.4.2
> build
> 3) The locale is set by default on Mandrake systems.  (On mine it's set to
> LANG=en).
> 
> I hope this helps.

Please see Paul Eggert's followups, for more comments
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-gnu-utils/2000-September/thread.html

> Thanks for your help,
>    -Chris
> 
> ps:  I have manually set LANG=en_CA on my Redhat system because gdm-2.0beta4
> seems to set it to "(null)" which causes perl to have a hissy fit.  But that's
> a bug for another day...
> 
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au revoir, alain
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