RFR (S): JDK-8025933 Configure should support French cl.exe

[Naoto Sato]

The issue here (and the reason why the rule is to run build in en_US) is 
that the build would be error prone if we allow running builds in 
locales other than US English. In the past, we had several build errors 
related to this, e.g., 'date' command produced differently formatted 
date string for each locale which resulted in build errors.

Naoto

On 10/4/13 9:42 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> I agree that the general rule is to build in an English environment. Unfortunately, on Windows, it is not as trivial, nor often possible to get tools to produce different output by setting a locale. It is not the case with cl.exe, anyway. And in this case, Microsoft apparently does not provide the English version to French users. Hence this fix.
>
> /Magnus
>
> 4 okt 2013 kl. 18:18 skrev Naoto Sato <naoto.sato at oracle.com>:
>
>> Hi Magnus,
>>
>> Well, it would work for Latin languages, but not for others, e.g., CJK. I thought that the general rule was to run the build in English environment. I would think that French CL.EXE would produce English version string on Windows configured for en_US locale.
>>
>> Naoto
>>
>> On 10/4/13 6:12 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8025933
>>>
>>> In France, it's not possible to download the English version of Visual
>>> Studio; hence CL.EXE presents itself as:
>>> Compilateur d'optimisation Microsoft (R) 32 bits C/C++ version
>>> 16.00.30319.01 pour 80x86
>>> instead of
>>> Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 16.00.30319.01
>>> for 80x86
>>>
>>> With a simple fix we can handle this in configure as well.
>>>
>>> WebRev:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8025933-configure-support-french-cl.exe/webrev.01
>>>
>>>
>>> /Magnus
>>