[9] RFR: 8160873: (cs) JDK9 Build failure on Hindi locale
Tim Bell
tim.bell at oracle.com
Thu Jul 21 00:40:22 UTC 2016
Naoto:
> Please review the fix to the following issue:
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8160873
>
> The proposed fix is located at:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~naoto/8160873/webrev.01/
>
> The gist of the issue is that those tools used to generate sources at
> build time were affected by the default locale, and if they use some
> number formatting functions, the results end up including locale
> dependent digits. The fix is to force tools to run in en-US locale by
> providing user.language/country properties to bootjdk arguments.
Looks good to me.
It is already common practice for the build to set:
LC_ALL=C
export LC_ALL
Tim
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