It's been rumoured that Dave Peticolas said:
>
> Currently, we use configure to find locale.h and only inlude it if
> found. I find this a bit odd, since locale.h is a POSIX header and
> we include other POSIX headers directly. Also, a few files do actually
> include locale.h directly.
>
> Unless someone knows a reason not to, I'm going to just include
> locale.h directly and skip the configuration check.
My guess is that there was some sort of bug, possibly with some
non-linux port. Go ahead and remove the configure check; however, in
the future, the configure code should be documented as to why things are
the way they are, so that questions like this don't arrise ...
--linas
