Add a suggestion for non-English locale of Linux in the test doc

[Erik Joelsson]

Hello,

Please add a space after the $ in the examples to match the other 
example lines in the file. Otherwise I'm OK with this version.

/Erik

On 2019-04-16 09:10, Jing Tian wrote:
> Hi Erik ,
>
> Thank you so much for your suggestions!
> Here is the updated version 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~lzhai/8222444/webrev.02/.
> Please review.
>
> Jing Tian
>
>
> 在 2019/4/16 21:20, Erik Joelsson 写道:
>> Hello Jing Tian,
>>
>> The last sentence doesn't really fit with the rest. I would just 
>> remove it and then list examples for both situations like this:
>>
>>     $ LANG=en_US make test TEST=...
>>     $ make test JTREG="VM_OPTIONS=-Duser.language=en 
>> -Duser.country=US" TEST=...
>>
>> While exporting LANG is certainly a valid solution, I think it's 
>> better if the examples are actual make command lines. I would expect 
>> most users to be familiar enough with the shell to know that 
>> variables can also be exported.
>>
>> /Erik
>>
>> On 2019-04-16 01:10, Jing Tian wrote:
>>> Thank you for your suggestions. I have reworked the documentation 
>>> and I think this is a prudent approach so far. Regarding the other 
>>> seven test cases, I will continue to find out why they can't pass 
>>> the test.
>>>
>>> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8222444
>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~lzhai/8222444/webrev.01/
>>>
>>> Jing Tian
>>>
>>> 在 2019/4/15 23:24, naoto.sato at oracle.com 写道:
>>>> As for the wording, I'd suggest "Non-US Locale" instead of 
>>>> "Non-English." Some tests may depend on US customary behavior, such 
>>>> as date format, decimal separator, etc.
>>>>
>>>> Naoto
>>>>
>>>> On 4/15/19 6:59 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Documenting this is certainly the least we can do. If our tests 
>>>>> depend on the locale being set to en_US, then I think the best 
>>>>> action would be to provide such a configuration directly in 
>>>>> RunTests.gmk. Exporting LANG should work for all Unix OSes, but 
>>>>> most likely not on Windows. The extra VM_OPTIONS would fix most of 
>>>>> them it seems. Would it be worth investigating the remaining 7 and 
>>>>> get them fixed?
>>>>>
>>>>> In the meantime, documenting seems prudent. I would suggest 
>>>>> something like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> ### Non-English Locale
>>>>>
>>>>> If your locale is non-English, some tests are likely to fail. To 
>>>>> work around this you can set the locale to English. On Unix 
>>>>> platforms simply setting `LANG=en_US` in the environment before 
>>>>> running tests should work. On Windows, setting 
>>>>> `JTREG="VM_OPTIONS=-Duser.language=en -Duser.country=US"` helps 
>>>>> for most, but not all test cases.
>>>>>
>>>>> /Erik
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2019-04-14 20:28, Jing Tian wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We have discussed the issue of the test cases fail because of 
>>>>>> locale before[1].
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for the suggestions given by Naoto and David. I think we 
>>>>>> can put this advice in the test doc, which may be better for 
>>>>>> people to test. This advice can avoid the problem that caused by 
>>>>>> locale and we can pay more attention to the functional points 
>>>>>> that the test itself focuses on.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Set JTREG="VM_OPTIONS=-Duser.language=en -Duser.country=US" , it 
>>>>>> does pass most test cases, but there are still very few test 
>>>>>> cases(7 in total) can't pass the test when they are in a 
>>>>>> non-English locale.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think if 'make test' in a non-English locale, we can set the 
>>>>>> locale to English first. Use 'export LANG="en_US"'. But this 
>>>>>> method is just for Linux. I test "tier1 tier2 tier3" after 
>>>>>> setting LANG="en_US". The problems caused by the local settings 
>>>>>> have not appeared anymore.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8222444
>>>>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~lzhai/8222444/webrev.00/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The testing.html is updated automatically using "make 
>>>>>> update-build-docs" with pandoc version 2.7.2.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] 
>>>>>> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/compiler-dev/2019-March/013144.html 
>>>>>> <https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/compiler-dev/2019-March/013144.html> 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Jing Tian
>>>>>>
>>>
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