problem using msvcmaker to build conformance test suite project file

[Dan Kegel]

Patrik Stridvall wrote:
>>http://www.winehq.com/Docs/wine-devel/testing-windows.shtml says:
>>
>>
>>>Run msvcmaker to generate Visual C++ project files for 
>>>the tests. ...
>>>
>>>$ ./tools/winapi/msvcmaker --no-wine
>>
>>I did that in my cvs wine directory, and all I got was
>>.: searching for /\.spec$/
>>.: searching for /^Makefile.in$/
>><internal>: options.pm: member W0B5 does not exists

Aha.  Caught by internationalization.  The workaround is

LANG=C
export LANG
./tools/winapi/msvcmaker --no-wine

I guess the FAQ needs updating... or the tool needs fixing...

I suspect the easiest "fix" would be to wrap msvcmaker with
   LANG=C
   export LANG

BTW, this is only one of many things that breaks when non-C locales are used.
Others I know of:
* 'man' when displayed in xterm or konsole (see
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75089
   where Red Hat says they will not support xterm, and also
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75642)
* all text processing utils are 10x or more slower (makes it hard
   to grep through large log files)
* sort gives nonintuitive results (not a bug, just very suprising)


- Dan

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