On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 04:38:14AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> ld-version.sh checks the output from $(LD) --version, but it has a
> problem on some locales.
> 
> For example, in Italian:
> 
>   $ LC_MESSAGES=it_IT.UTF-8 ld --version | head -n 1
>   ld di GNU (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.35.2
> 
> This makes ld-version.sh fail because it expects "GNU ld" for the
> BFD linker case.
> 
> Add LC_ALL=C to override the user's locale.
> 
> BTW, setting LC_MESSAGES=C (or LANG=C) is not enough because it is
> ineffective if LC_ALL is set on the user's environment.
> 
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212105
> Reported-by: Marco Scardovi
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahi...@kernel.org>

LGTM, this is Debian's recommendation as well:
https://wiki.debian.org/Locale

Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nat...@kernel.org>

> ---
> 
>  scripts/ld-version.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/ld-version.sh b/scripts/ld-version.sh
> index 30debf78aa09..1bf3aadde9de 100755
> --- a/scripts/ld-version.sh
> +++ b/scripts/ld-version.sh
> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ orig_args="$@"
>  # Get the first line of the --version output.
>  IFS='
>  '
> -set -- $("$@" --version)
> +set -- $(LC_ALL=C "$@" --version)
>  
>  # Split the line on spaces.
>  IFS=' '
> -- 
> 2.27.0
> 

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