X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=D8+1eO ex2FQua8rtGMmnyqaeNXAoaCft8Xay7XLRPa4EurYSQ3+yU8oDDg80GcRZigxRg5 ZnZ9fLDrOR45ih+D6ITuqPAXWvg/OhKjeBDsyqlyY7XSGgZGE/jZAmwj5VFapnDn xdEiOFTkTXh7hOz2RbAfEdwVQHcKv3WxNBkJc= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type; s=default; bh=/wUVrUPMjfBY 8U82CcmxDAC4sl4=; b=oKTH3itwkeHvXpOdLXvFjrp0/tZKibuwETNQHHtyRofW J2AGbg8xpVH6J3zqTh2C8djeCb+aw9NRUdlHt9HHMnVpTEhyK/fWjIyps3gqr729 ZQV+Nn1ChFWd6E0WFjrvP1SqUxayS2hJcWqEsC4TjaElCaZbckKtDq/OxYFLj/E= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Message-ID: <542B0E9B.2080909@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:12:11 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: locale -uU in ~/.profile References: In-Reply-To: OpenPGP: url=http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TB7ehFKsThqCCMNijmmFOKBCutXqGuwCk" X-IsSubscribed: yes --TB7ehFKsThqCCMNijmmFOKBCutXqGuwCk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 09/30/2014 11:53 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I recently debugged this. I share my home directory from a NetApp filer > such that I can use it from Cygwin or the various Linux machines at my > client (largely CentOS). Recently I started seeing: >=20 > Adefaria-lt:ssh cm-db-ltest01 > locale: invalid option -- 'u' > Try `locale --help' or `locale --usage' for more information. > Cm-db-test01: >=20 > Hunting this down I found that I have a ~/.profile now (didn't have one > before) and contained therein is the following: >=20 > # Set user-defined locale > export LANG=3D$(locale -uU) Sounds like cygwin's base-files should be updated to guard cygwin-specific .profile contents to only occur when uname says it is running on cygwin. I'm sure the maintainer would love patches... >=20 > Turns out that on CentOS locale doesn't support -uU. Now this .profile > came from a refreshing of Cygwin. How best to handle this... You can guard that with something as simple as: case $(uname) in CYGWIN*) export LANG=3D$(locale -uU) ;; esac (hmm, the moment you also share the .profile with a Solaris box, you'd have to use `` instead of $(), but that's another story) --=20 Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --TB7ehFKsThqCCMNijmmFOKBCutXqGuwCk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJUKw6bAAoJEKeha0olJ0NqihEH/iMxV0Zw7EU3niD5pYHt5hOa /vt6Vshqs+YSbs6Gk+5vXAW8AnOeT6kKllRcnkDjbZR0CijgCQN/6SJrcGxVbXsL pZoHI+y71viN3p/3oiIspd6SMosrhdv+4iOcxXSzaIP41xXD6xwfP+H8Zgx4y2aa UljL4ssicZq6tlWLiSejFcGqpFnHMOUL5pqSpYA8a6KhWTBFUmtCIYKk8igN3aHX 7KPDq7POsZlcbNyhXMfrp7CJBhket00uxsl55hE2/RiBkNpNq/rZIHQID5ae46zd vAkt7CzyhIRca6y73DE4l8X08jaSBJvsY/+OhCqkPSd0BgXH3iafCQYqm39C+ls= =EBTf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TB7ehFKsThqCCMNijmmFOKBCutXqGuwCk--