[Python-Dev] Dealing with test__locale failure on OS X before a3

[Nick Bastin]

On Aug 26, 2004, at 7:41 PM, Brett C. wrote:

> Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>
>> Brett C. wrote:
>>> Personally I would like to turn off the test on OS X for now and 
>>> then try to see if there is a proper way to solve this.
>> In what way does that help? The test shows that the locale module is
>> broken on OS X. So the only sensible options are to remove the module
>> (or atleast the relevant functions), or to fix them.
>
> I have an idea for detecting a broken setlocale.  When configure.in 
> does its compiling does it compile with the same flags that the 
> Makefile uses for compiling?  If it does we can test for something we 
> know will be different (fr_FR has a different decimal point, for 
> instance) and compare them and then have a value in pyconfig.h to 
> signal that a busted setlocale exists.  setlocale can then raise 
> locale.Error automatically for platforms that have that macro defined. 
>  But the test has to be compiled with the ``-framework 
> CoreFoundation`` option or else this won't work.

I think we should actually just fix this, rather than removing locale 
support for MacOS X builds.  The trick is that we need to call 
__setonlyClocaleconv() again, to remove the protection against calling 
setlocale() in framework builds (why they did this in the first place 
is beyond me).  Seems like it should be an easy gate against darwin, 
and then call that on startup.

--
Nick