OpenJDK 6 may stop builds on CP936 Mac & Linux

[Joe Darcy]

Hi Johnson.

Thanks for the bug archeology.

I approve 6501543 being backported to OpenJDK 6.

-Joe

Johnson Lau wrote:
> Found the original bug id & changeset id.
>
> Bug ID: #6501543 Username can have non-alphanumeric characters
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6501543
>
> Changeset: 425096dc0fc8.
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/rev/425096dc0fc8
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Johnson
>
> 于 11-1-8 上午6:57, Joe Darcy 写道:
>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>