gnu: glibc: Do not abort when incompatible locale data is found.

* gnu/packages/patches/glibc-locale-incompatibility.patch: New file.
* gnu/packages/base.scm (glibc)[source]: Use it.
* gnu-system.am (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
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Ludovic Courtès 2015-10-03 12:19:23 +02:00
parent 997f86e96b
commit 2ae71b746b
3 changed files with 25 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -471,6 +471,7 @@ dist_patch_DATA = \
gnu/packages/patches/glibc-bootstrap-system.patch \
gnu/packages/patches/glibc-ldd-x86_64.patch \
gnu/packages/patches/glibc-locales.patch \
gnu/packages/patches/glibc-locale-incompatibility.patch \
gnu/packages/patches/glibc-o-largefile.patch \
gnu/packages/patches/gmp-arm-asm-nothumb.patch \
gnu/packages/patches/gnucash-price-quotes-perl.patch \

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@ -476,6 +476,7 @@ (define-public glibc
(modules '((guix build utils)))
(patches (map search-patch
'("glibc-ldd-x86_64.patch"
"glibc-locale-incompatibility.patch"
"glibc-o-largefile.patch")))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)

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@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
This patch avoids an assertion failure when incompatible locale data
is encountered:
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-09/msg00575.html
--- glibc-2.22/locale/loadlocale.c 2015-09-22 17:16:02.321981548 +0200
+++ glibc-2.22/locale/loadlocale.c 2015-09-22 17:17:34.814659064 +0200
@@ -120,10 +120,11 @@
_nl_value_type_LC_XYZ array. There are all pointers. */
switch (category)
{
-#define CATTEST(cat) \
- case LC_##cat: \
- assert (cnt < (sizeof (_nl_value_type_LC_##cat) \
- / sizeof (_nl_value_type_LC_##cat[0]))); \
+#define CATTEST(cat) \
+ case LC_##cat: \
+ if (cnt >= (sizeof (_nl_value_type_LC_##cat) \
+ / sizeof (_nl_value_type_LC_##cat[0]))) \
+ goto puntdata; \
break
CATTEST (NUMERIC);
CATTEST (TIME);