On 2005/07/07, at 22:39, Dominic Dunlop wrote
On 7 Jul 2005, at 12:57, Joel Rees wrote:
lib/locale................................FAILED at test 99
This is perfectly normal. Unfortunately. The problem is that Mac OS
X 10.4 ships with more locale definitions than previous versions,
and eu_ES, one of the new locales, has a really weird (read, buggy)
value for the decimal separator -- "\' ". This confuses perl into
believing that a number using this string in place of a decimal
point is two numbers, and a test which runs through various
features of every installed locale fails. It's in the perl bug
database as #35895, and I reported it to Apple as their bug ID#
4139653. But I have not had any feedback from Apple so far.
Okay, I tried the make test VERBOSE, as Ken suggested, and it reports
the file you mention.
I suppose I could simply fix that myself, if I knew the decimal
separator should be the comma. But I'm not using Spanish, so I'll
forego learning where Apple hid the locales today. (Hmm. I see /
System/Library/LocalePlugins, but that only has something apparently
for Thai text breaks.)
Install completes without complaint.
Thanks.
joel
