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| author | Archaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2005-12-26 19:00:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Archaic <archaic@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2005-12-26 19:00:06 +0000 |
| commit | 5536f7440f2f4a12782e8d741cbbba5f1c3cfea8 (patch) | |
| tree | a0f3a22ecc9c0eedfd891d54e9acf06502d2b07f /chapter06/coreutils.xml | |
| parent | 2550494b85359ff42bb95a72911c7751cbce14d4 (diff) | |
Applied Alexander Patrakov's patch which adds UTF-8 capability to the
development branch of the LFS Book.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7235 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/coreutils.xml | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/coreutils.xml b/chapter06/coreutils.xml index 8b06c567b..5c3980f2f 100644 --- a/chapter06/coreutils.xml +++ b/chapter06/coreutils.xml @@ -41,6 +41,26 @@ other packages later:</para> <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&coreutils-suppress-patch;</userinput></screen> +<para>POSIX requires that programs from Coreutils recognize character +boundaries correctly even in multibyte locales. The following patch +fixes this non-compliance and other internationalization-related bugs:</para> + +<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&coreutils-i18n-patch;</userinput></screen> + +<para>In order for the tests added by this patch to pass, the permissions for +the test file have to be changed:</para> + +<screen><userinput>chmod +x tests/sort/sort-mb-tests</userinput></screen> + +<note><para>In the past, many bugs were found in this patch. When reporting +new bugs to Coreutils maintainers, please check first if they are reproducible +without this patch.</para></note> + +<para>It has been found that translated messages sometimes overflow a buffer +in the <command>who -Hu</command> command. Increase the buffer size:</para> + +<screen><userinput>sed -i 's,_LEN 6,_LEN 20,' src/who.c</userinput></screen> + <para>Now prepare Coreutils for compilation:</para> <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen> |