[OpenIndiana-discuss] Bash bug issue

[Nikola M.]

On 10/ 5/14 10:40 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2014, Ian Collins wrote:
>
>> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>>> It is always good to execute 'gmake check' before installing sofware
>>> that comes with a test suite.  Some bash tests seem to fail.
>>
>> If you check the comments printed by the tests, it looks like the 
>> "failures" seen on Solaris based OS are expected.
>
> Under OpenIndiana I saw some differences in output which may be due to 
> small issues with internationalized character sets ("locales"). 
> OpenIndiana uses different internationalization code than "Solaris" 
> since it was written from scratch by the Illumos project.
Yeah as I understand it was closed source/proprietary part in Opensolaris.
>
> The bash I built (4.3.29) seems to be working fine for my purposes but 
> I don't use bash as an interactive shell.
You can post a bug on OI for that internationalization issue, it is 
always useful to have something like that described in detail in bug report.