[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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