[U-Boot] [PATCH] fix linker generated lists on non-C locales

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Sun Dec 2 18:50:53 CET 2012


Dear Pavel Herrmann,

> Setting LC_COLLATE=C is not enough if LC_ALL=en_US.utf8. The result is a
> build that has no available commands. Setting LC_ALL=C for the generator
> script helps.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Herrmann <morpheus.ibis at gmail.com>
> ---
>  helper.mk | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/helper.mk b/helper.mk
> index 79a1da0..2b75182 100644
> --- a/helper.mk
> +++ b/helper.mk
> @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
>  #    line. Next, append "@" at the end and print the line. Finally,
>  #    append "~" at the end of line. This will make sense in conjunction
>  #    with 6) and 7).
> -# 7) Sort the lines. It is imperative to use LC_COLLATE=C here because
> +# 7) Sort the lines. It is imperative to use LC_ALL=C here because
>  #    with this, the "\a" symbol is first and "~" symbol is last. Any
>  #    other symbols fall inbetween. Symbols like "@", which marks the
>  #    end of current line (representing current section) and ".", which
> @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ $(1): $(2)
>  		-e 's/\.[^\.]\+$$$$//' \
>  		-e ':s /^.\+$$$$/ { p;s/^\(.*\)\.[^\.]*$$$$/\1/;b s }' | \
>  	sed -n -e 'h;s/$$$$/\a/p;g;s/$$$$/@/p;g;s/$$$$/~/p;' | \
> -	LC_COLLATE=C sort -u | \
> +	LC_ALL=C sort -u | \

How will this work? LC_COLLATE is supposed to adjust the behavior of "sort" 
command, without it, "sort" will not behave as expected.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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