From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:42:33 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: tests: fix false failure on Centos 7
X-Git-Tag: v9.11~18
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e245adbbc7c019908f14f17ee421a28b92fabb13;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

tests: fix false failure on Centos 7

* tests/date/date-locale-hour.sh: Ensure `locale date_fmt`
is propagated exactly, even when it contains trailing new lines,
as was seen with Serbian locales on Centos 7.
---

diff --git a/tests/date/date-locale-hour.sh b/tests/date/date-locale-hour.sh
index e2353ec330..a368fb77d7 100755
--- a/tests/date/date-locale-hour.sh
+++ b/tests/date/date-locale-hour.sh
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ done
 # Make sure 'date' can use the format string given by 'locale date_fmt'
 # and that it uses it by default when no format string is given.
 for loc in $(locale -a | shuf -n 10); do
-  fmt=$(LC_ALL=$loc locale date_fmt)
+  fmt="$(LC_ALL=$loc locale date_fmt; printf x)"
+  fmt=${fmt%$'\n'x}  # Retain fmt newlines (seen with Serbian on Centos 7)
   if test -n "$fmt"; then
     LC_ALL=$loc date -d '2025-10-11T13:00' +"$fmt" > $loc.exp || fail=1
     LC_ALL=$loc date -d '2025-10-11T13:00' > $loc.out || fail=1