[9] RFR: 8160873: (cs) JDK9 Build failure on Hindi locale

[Tim Bell]

On 07/21/16 05:34, Alan Burlison wrote:
> On 21/07/2016 01:40, Tim Bell wrote:
>
>> Looks good to me.
>>
>> It is already common practice for the build to set:
>>
>>    LC_ALL=C
>>    export LC_ALL
>
> Note that this doesn't seem to be happening for the tests run by 'make 
> test', at least not on Solaris. The result is a bunch of date/time 
> formatting test failures. Manually setting LC_CTYPE=C before running 
> 'make tests' fixes the problem.

True.  This situation could be improved.  I found "LC_ALL=C; export 
LC_ALL" (or the equivalent) spread liberally throughout Makefiles and 
scripts.  The only documentation I found mentioning locale was in a 
netbeans make README, which is buried pretty far down:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/file/tip/make/netbeans/README

> It's on my list to fix...

Good, thanks.

Tim