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On 10/12/22 05:50, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> A test recently added to t/run/locale.t is producing noise on STDERR when
> building perl on my system.
>
> The test is (in part):
>
> local $ENV{LC_ALL} = "This is not a legal locale name";
>
> fresh_perl_like("", qr/Falling back to the $fallback locale/,
> {}, "check that illegal startup environment falls back");
>
> and it produces this output:
>
> $ ./perl -Ilib t/run/locale.t > /dev/null
> sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (This is not a legal locale name): No such file or directory
> $
>
> Should this be silenced?
>
Yes, but I don't know a good way to do so. It is coming from the shell;
not all shells raise it. For some shells, LC_ALL and friends are
significant, and changing them to a locale not present on the system
causes the shell to complain. But that is the point of the test, to
make sure that perl properly handles
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