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

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2013-10-06 05:19, David Holmes wrote:
> Magnus,
>
> Echoing Naoto's comments I don't agree that we should be supporting 
> this. In the original email a workaround was mentioned using an 
> environment variable - if that is the case then I don't think we need 
> to do anything here. Even if not, who knows how many other languages 
> we might have to support in this way.

I didn't think a simple patch would generate so much discussion. :-)

I'm just about this close -->| |<-- to dropping this but let me just 
elaborate on a few points here:
1) The fix was indeed intended to be language independet; the comment 
about Frech was unfortunate and should be rewritten.

2) The workaround mentioned was for JDK7. No such workaround is possible 
for JDK8, and we will fail at configure time.

3) I think English should be the supported locale; unfortunately on 
Windows platforms changing locale is system-wide and thus not possible 
to change for only JDK build tools. Building in a virtual machine with 
English locale to work around this is of course possible, but that will 
make a slow build even slower.

4) At the very least, a simple fix that don't get configure artificially 
caught when trying to check if the tools is okay, when it actually is, 
would be okay.


New webrev fixing the comment: 
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8025933-configure-support-french-cl.exe/webrev.02

If anyone still objects to this, let me known and I'll drop it.

/Magnus