OpenJDK 6 may stop builds on CP936 Mac & Linux

[Joe Darcy]

If the JDK 7 bug id of the change is provided, I can take a look at that 
for back porting to OpenJDK 6.

-Joe

Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> 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
>>
>