Re: Problem with make all in /usr/src/

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20080129181444.GB632%snowdrop.l8s.co.uk@localhost>,
David Laight  <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:23:15PM +0300, Denis Lagno wrote:
>> * Mike Cheponis <mac%Wireless.Com@localhost> [Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:43:02 
>> -0800 
>> (PST)]:
>> >/usr/src/distrib/common/buildfloppies.sh: arith: syntax error: " (
>> >2,932,736 + 512 - 1 ) / ( 512 ) "
>> 
>> looks like locale issue.  Try to set LC_ALL=C before build.  Or use 
>> build.sh -- it should set locale properly.
>
>Or make sure you don't have anything sill on you $PATH that replaces
>a standard utility program with one that generates 'pretty' output.
>
>In this case 'ls -ln' seesm to be putting 'thousand separators' into
>the file size.

Perhaps build.sh should check the environment and warn about possible
settings that will affect the build like the jdk build process does.

christos