Cleaning up an old spec file

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Sat Aug 6 07:43:37 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 19:42 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 12:27:58 -0500, Quentin Spencer wrote:
>
> > 3. export LC_ALL=POSIX (right before configure)
> > Why does this matter?
> 
> Depends on what the configure script does. LC_ALL=C or LC_ALL=POSIX is a
> way to override locales, as may be needed to get reproducible output from
> tools.

Also:

$ rpm --eval '%build'
%build
LANG=C
export LANG
unset DISPLAY

...so it's possibly no longer needed.  On the other hand, any LC_*
variables set in the environment override LANG, so yep, it depends.




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