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Re: Where is a compile bug in postgresql-7.0beta2 reported?

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> — 2000-06-14T15:46:17Z

Added to TODO list:

	* BSD/OS does not support locale because there is no LC_MESSAGES

I have contacted BSDI support about the problem.

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> Do we know anybody with BSDI 4.1? LC_MESSAGES may have made it into that
> release, though I have no way of checking this since my support contract has
> expired :-(. I'll renew, but that doesn't help for an April release.
> 
> Regards,
>     - Steve
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
> Cc: Steve Nunez <snunez@tibcofinance.com>; <pgsql-ports@postgresql.org>;
> <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>; <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 12:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [BUGS] Where is a compile bug in postgresql-7.0beta2 reported?
> 
> 
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > Yes, I see it here on BSD/OS 4.01 with --enable_locale.  It is from:
> >
> > > lc->lc_messages = setlocale(LC_MESSAGES,  NULL);
> >
> > > BSDI does not define LC_MESSAGES as part of its setlocale() interface.
> > > Is this a standard feature that BSDI is missing, or some specific
> > > extension?
> >
> > HPUX has LC_MESSAGES, and I don't usually find them to be out on the
> > bleeding edge of conformance to new standards.  The HPUX man page
> > for setlocale() --- which specifically lists LC_MESSAGES --- says
> >
> > STANDARDS COMPLIANCE
> >      setlocale(): AES, SVID3, XPG3, XPG4, FIPS 151-2, POSIX.1, ANSI C
> >
> > which are all pretty ancient.  So I suspect BSDI is behind the curve.
> >
> > Next question is what to do about it.  We could do #ifdef LC_MESSAGES,
> > but what do we need to do if it's not defined?
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
> 
> 


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