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On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:03:23 GMT, int32 wrote: > This is a bug report for perl from dmitry@karasik.eu.org, > generated with the help of perlbug 1.41 running under perl 5.29.2. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > [Please describe your issue here] > > ce6f496d720f6206455628425320badd95b07372 changed float/double > formatting > from strtoflt128 to Perl_strtod, which had a nasty side effect when > running > under non-english locales (or I suspect with locales that use comma > for decimal point) > together with GTK or any other library that calls setlocale() itself. > > The test for this is rather elaborate, so I'm attaching a localebug > module > that tests for it when run 'make test'. One needs the following (for > Ubuntu, for > example): > > * apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev (gtk development files) > * cpan ExtUtils::PkgConfig > * locale-gen de_DE.UTF-8 && update-locale (tests need de_DE.UTF-8) > > When running with a faulty configuration, the core issue is basically > this: > > my $s = sprintf "%s", 4.9999; > die "bug:$s" if $s !~ /^4[,.]9999$/; > > which prints just "4". > > The module attached can also be found at > http://karasik.eu.org/misc/localebug-1.00.tar.gz > In order to run the tests in your tarball, I would have to become the root user (or sudo) and change the default locale. I am reluctant to do that and, in any case, we have to be able to run the Perl 5 core test suite as non-root users. Could your tests be modified so that an ordinary user could run them? Thank you very much. -- James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org) --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133945Thread Previous | Thread Next