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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-10-02 11:59:12 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-10-02 11:59:12 +0000
commit4c1bac7903e553f2ead34f5fdf31e5541acbca0c (patch)
treec0f4014d0626840283dc9b810eb1183dd5797bc7 /ext
parentb5a1df5a5dab453e4cd4be5d2eca4efe2d8c4e51 (diff)
downloadperl-4c1bac7903e553f2ead34f5fdf31e5541acbca0c.tar.gz
Work around old buggy glibcs for langinfo constants,
from Nicholas Clark and David Dyck. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@12306
Diffstat (limited to 'ext')
-rw-r--r--ext/I18N/Langinfo/Langinfo.t8
-rw-r--r--ext/I18N/Langinfo/Makefile.PL23
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/ext/I18N/Langinfo/Langinfo.t b/ext/I18N/Langinfo/Langinfo.t
index 4dd72139d7..b2e97f9d8f 100644
--- a/ext/I18N/Langinfo/Langinfo.t
+++ b/ext/I18N/Langinfo/Langinfo.t
@@ -32,14 +32,16 @@ print "ok 3\n";
print "not " unless langinfo(MON_1) eq "January";
print "ok 4\n";
-unless (langinfo(RADIXCHAR) eq ".") {
+unless (eval { langinfo(RADIXCHAR) } eq ".") {
print "not ok 5 - RADIXCHAR undefined\n";
- if ($Config{d_gnulibc} || $Config{cppsymbols} =~ /GLIBC/) {
+ if ($Config{d_gnulibc} || $Config{cppsymbols} =~ /__GNU_LIBRARY_/) {
print <<EOM;
#
# You are probably using GNU libc. The RADIXCHAR not getting defined
# by I18N::Langinfo is a known problem in some older versions of the
-# GNU libc.
+# GNU libc (caused by the combination of using only enums, not cpp
+# definitions, and of hiding the definitions behind rather obscure
+# feature tests). Upgrading your libc is strongly suggested.
#
EOM
}
diff --git a/ext/I18N/Langinfo/Makefile.PL b/ext/I18N/Langinfo/Makefile.PL
index 63137ff90a..2c211ccc87 100644
--- a/ext/I18N/Langinfo/Makefile.PL
+++ b/ext/I18N/Langinfo/Makefile.PL
@@ -20,14 +20,25 @@ WriteMakefile(
# 'OBJECT' => '$(O_FILES)', # link all the C files too
);
if (eval {require ExtUtils::Constant; 1}) {
- my @names = (qw(ABDAY_1 ABDAY_2 ABDAY_3 ABDAY_4 ABDAY_5 ABDAY_6 ABDAY_7
+ # Some older versions of glibc use only enums, no defines, hence all this
+ # hassle (so old glibc that the define is GNU_LIBRARY, not GLIBC):
+ my @names = 'CODESET'; # CODESET isn't an enum in old glibc's langinfo.h
+ push @names, # This lot are always enums in old langinfo.h:
+ {name=>$_, type=>"IV",
+ macro=>["#if defined($_) || (defined(__GNU_LIBRARY__) && defined(_NL_ITEM))\n",
+ "#endif\n"]}
+ foreach qw (ABDAY_1 ABDAY_2 ABDAY_3 ABDAY_4 ABDAY_5 ABDAY_6 ABDAY_7
ABMON_1 ABMON_10 ABMON_11 ABMON_12 ABMON_2 ABMON_3 ABMON_4
ABMON_5 ABMON_6 ABMON_7 ABMON_8 ABMON_9 ALT_DIGITS AM_STR
- CODESET CRNCYSTR DAY_1 DAY_2 DAY_3 DAY_4 DAY_5 DAY_6 DAY_7
- D_FMT D_T_FMT ERA ERA_D_FMT ERA_D_T_FMT ERA_T_FMT MON_1
- MON_10 MON_11 MON_12 MON_2 MON_3 MON_4 MON_5 MON_6 MON_7
- MON_8 MON_9 NOEXPR NOSTR PM_STR RADIXCHAR THOUSEP T_FMT
- T_FMT_AMPM YESEXPR YESSTR));
+ DAY_1 DAY_2 DAY_3 DAY_4 DAY_5 DAY_6 DAY_7 D_FMT D_T_FMT ERA
+ ERA_D_FMT ERA_D_T_FMT ERA_T_FMT MON_1 MON_10 MON_11 MON_12
+ MON_2 MON_3 MON_4 MON_5 MON_6 MON_7 MON_8 MON_9 NOEXPR NOSTR
+ PM_STR T_FMT T_FMT_AMPM YESEXPR YESSTR);
+ push @names, # This lot are only enums for __SVR4_I386_ABI_L1__:
+ {name=>$_, type=>"IV",
+ macro=>["#if defined($_) || (defined(__GNU_LIBRARY__) && defined(_NL_ITEM) && defined(__SVR4_I386_ABI_L1__))\n",
+ "#endif\n"]}
+ foreach qw (CRNCYSTR THOUSEP RADIXCHAR);
ExtUtils::Constant::WriteConstants(
NAME => 'I18N::Langinfo',
NAMES => \@names,