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@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ 2019-09-01 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + build: Explain how to avoid skipped tests. + * HACKING: Explain which locales to install, to avoid skipped tests. + +2019-09-01 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + build: Add support for shallow-cloning of subdirectories. * gitsub.sh (func_usage): Document allowed git options with 'git pull'. (func_pull): Accept GIT_OPTIONS argument. @@ -49,6 +49,20 @@ You will need reasonably recent versions of the build tools: And, of course, the packages listed in the DEPENDENCIES file. +Additional requirements for maintainers +--------------------------------------- + +If you are a maintainer, you will want to minimize the number of tests that +are skipped. To this effect, you need to install a couple of locales, used by +the tests. By default, only those enabled in /etc/locale.gen are preinstalled. + +$ sudo localedef -i ar_SA -f ISO-8859-6 ar_SA.ISO-8859-6 +$ sudo localedef -i fr_FR -f ISO-8859-1 fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 +$ sudo localedef -i fr_FR -f UTF-8 fr_FR.UTF-8 +$ sudo localedef -i ja_JP -f EUC-JP ja_JP.EUC-JP +$ sudo localedef -i zh_CN -f GB18030 zh_CN.GB18030 + + Building off the Git repository =============================== |