Description Gerald Pfeifer 2017-01-15 21:20:27 UTC

Created attachment 178935 [details]
Proposed patch to set LC_COLLATE in CONFIGURE_ENV and MAKE_ENV

Starting with FreeBSD 11, awk follows "natural", but unexpected (to many
of us and existing programs) sorting and string comparisons when used in
a locale different than the C locale.

This hit us when building GCC under the new version, cf.
  https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210122 
  https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211742

It quite likely is going to hit us in many other cases, not the least
since the behavior of GNU awk matches the original FreeBSD awk behavior
(unless POSIXLY_CORRECT is set in the environment). 

So, and as a general best practice to increase reproducability, let's
set LC_COLLATE=C when building ports and packages per the attached.

I verified this fixes building the lang/gcc* ports when the current
workaround is removed.