----- stuart.ma...@oracle.com skrev: > I don't know, and I don't have the expertise in the build system to > know how other LANG settings would affect the build. Perhaps somebody else on > build-dev knows. Meanwhile, we're patching things up this way, even though it > makes things a bit messier.
If you had built the new build-infra/jdk8 tree, you would have noticed that it does not require you to set LANG=C It should work with any locale, I use my default setting LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 The reason LANG=C is necessary for the old makefiles is because in very few places in the makefiles, tr,date,sort and some other cli tools, are used in such a way that is dependent on the locale. Also these commands generate Java source or other settings which cause the actual error message to appear much later, and it takes a bit of time to track it back to the original cause, which is in fact trivial to fix. //Fredrik
