From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:07:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Export LC_ALL=C, to avoid failure when run in a UTF locale.
X-Git-Tag: v4.5.4~207
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d38c17cdbc971452df13c76fed70c1d76ecfe352;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

Export LC_ALL=C, to avoid failure when run in a UTF locale.
Report and suggested fix by Bruno Haible.
---

diff --git a/tests/sum/sysv b/tests/sum/sysv
index cab25b1537..39697bb737 100755
--- a/tests/sum/sysv
+++ b/tests/sum/sysv
@@ -13,6 +13,12 @@ case "$PERL" in
   ;;
 esac
 
+# Avoid a problem when run in a UTF-8 locale.
+# Otherwise, Perl would try to (and fail to) interpret
+# each string below as a sequence of multi-byte characters.
+LC_ALL=C
+export LC_ALL
+
 pwd=`pwd`
 tmp=sum-s.$$
 trap 'status=$?; cd $pwd; rm -rf $tmp && exit $status' 0