Bug 501578 – sys-process/time - mdate-sh hangs if $TIME_STYLE is set to long_iso

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Khayyam 2014-02-17 12:33:27 UTC]

Created attachment 370630 [details, diff]
patch to set TIME_STYLE in mdate-sh

If TIME_STYLE is set (in my case to 'iso-long') the emerge of sys-process/time will hang when attempting to run '$(SHELL) ./mdate-sh time.texi' this is because the mdate.sh script expects to output a string (ie 'january'), but in the case of 'iso-long' it will output a numerical value and not the expected string. With the string not forthcoming the mdate-sh process hangs indefinitely and the emerge never completes.

To test the above:

export TIME_STYLE="iso-long" ; emerge sys-process/time

Attatched is a bumped ebuild and patch which sets TIME_STYLE to 'locale' and so corrects the issue.

[Comment 1 Khayyam 2014-02-17 12:34:21 UTC]

Created attachment 370632 [details]
sys-process/time-1.7-r2.ebuild

[Comment 2 Khayyam 2014-02-17 13:02:23 UTC]

(In reply to Khayyam from comment #0)
 
> To test the above:
> 
> export TIME_STYLE="iso-long" ; emerge sys-process/time

sorry, correction:

export TIME_STYLE="long-iso" ; emerge sys-process/time

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2014-02-18 03:57:53 UTC]

should be fixed in autotools.eclass:
http://sources.gentoo.org/eclass/autotools.eclass?r1=1.159&r2=1.160

[Comment 4 Khayyam 2014-02-18 12:50:19 UTC]

(In reply to SpanKY from comment #3)
> should be fixed in autotools.eclass:

Indeed, that seems to have fixed it. Thanks.