OpenJDK 6 may stop builds on CP936 Mac & Linux

[Phil Race]

Whilst I don't know the specifics of this issue the Openjdk builds require
that you use the 'C' psuedo-locale  for builds and that the sanity check
will complain  and point out that build failures are possible for other 
locales.
So this would be "not a bug", or a bug in the 'date' program if its ignoring
your locale setting of 'C'.

-phil.

On 12/31/2010 10:16 AM, Johnson Lau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just found that OpenJDK 6 may stop builds on CP936 Mac & Linux.
> Checked the latest repo and confirmed that the bug still exists.
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/file/3a8a8b5f1612/make/common/shared/Defs.gmk 
>
> Line #275
>
> Currently, FULL_VERSION uses a format with local abbreviated month 
> name (%b).
> On these platforms, date will produce a string in local language with 
> space
> (i.e. [_1月] which indicates January),
> which breaks the builds.
>
> This is fixed in OpenJDK 7 already so I brought the patch into JDK 6.
> Hope someone can merge this.
>
> Thanks,
> Johnson Lau