OpenJDK 6 may stop builds on CP936 Mac & Linux

[Kelly O'Hair]

Phil has a point, I'm not sure how valid a jdk build is with a non-C  
locale.
Using LANG=C is advised.

However, I have no objection to this change being made by someone.
The %b is a locale specific value and really should be avoided.

-kto

On Jan 3, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Phil Race wrote:

> 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
>